Report: Turkish gov’t systematically torture jailed journalists from state-run TRT
Turkish journalist Cevheri Güven, who used to be the editor-in-chief of closed Nokta newsweekly in Turkey and now live in exile, has written in...
Turkish gov’t imprisons 8 people for 10 months over their show of solidarity with...
Eight people have been kept in prison over just their demonstration to show their solidarity with journalists by protesting police raid to the Zaman...
Bugün TV sold by Turkish gov’t to a ‘triggerman’ convicted of plundering, murder
The satellite and cable broadcasting licenses of Bugün TV, which used to be owned by İpek Media Group that was allegedly affiliated with the...
CoE: Imprisonment of journalists part of broader pattern of repression against dissent, criticism
Nils Muiznieks, Council of Europe (CoE) Commissioner for Human Rights, has stated in an observation report on October 10, 2017, which was released today,...
Turkish court sentences journalist Kuru with 6 years of imprisonment over working for Zaman...
Turkish journalist Mehmet Kuru was sentenced by a Turkish court to 6 years and 3 months prison term only for the fact that he...
Turkish journalist faces investigation for accusing minister’s husband of ByLock use
An İstanbul prosecutor launched investigation against journalist and Fox TV anchor İsmail Küçükkaya and lawyer Fidel Okan on Tuesday for implying that Turkish Minister of...
Turkish veteran journalist Ünal Tanık arrested for not revealing his news source
A veteran journalist who run a popular online news portal in Turkey has been jailed for 273 days for not revealing the source of...
Jailed Turkish journalist’s wife slams ECtHR for causing unlawfulness to be reproduced in Turkey
Imprisoned Turkish journalist Ahmet Şık's wife Yonca Şık has harshly criticised the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) and accused the court of causing unlawfulness...
Turkish prosecutor seeks 15 years for journalist Güven over one tweet
An İstanbul prosecutor has demanded a 15-year sentence for Cumhuriyet daily website editor Oğuz Güven, who was jailed between May 15 and June 14...
Jailed HDP co-chair Demirtaş’s storybook banned in Diyarbakir Prison
A selection of short stories written by the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party's (HDP) jailed co-chair Selahattin Demirtaş was banned by Diyarbakır prison administration for “including...
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Sippenhaft, also known as...
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The May 2023 re-election of...