Female Kurdish journalist faces arrest following investigative report uncovering alleged criminal gangs
Turkish police on Saturday raided the home of Rabia Önver, a Kurdish journalist covering gangs in eastern Turkey, the Bianet news website reported. Önver, who...
Turkey blocks access to Grok’s X account, citing national security
Turkish authorities have blocked access to the X account of Grok, the artificial intelligence chatbot developed by Elon Musk’s xAI, under a law that...
Turkish pro-gov’t media outlets the least trusted by people
Turkish pro-government media outlets, like the Sabah daily, aHaber TV and public broadcaster TRT have the lowest trust among people, while media outlets that...
Turkish court orders arrest of journalist on disinformation charges
A Turkish court on Sunday ordered the arrest of journalist İsmail Arı of the BirGün daily on charges of “publicly disseminating misleading information,” Turkish...
EP’s Harms calls on ECtHR to immediately process complaints of Turkish journalists Sabuncu, Şık
Rebecca Harms, spokeswoman for foreign affairs and expert on Turkey in the European Parliament’s Greens/EFA group, on Thursday called on the European Court of...
Court convicts Turkish journalist of ‘threatening’ Erdoğan
A Turkish court on Wednesday sentenced a popular political journalist and commentator to more than four years in prison for “threatening” President Recep Tayyip...
Turkey Purge: 1,895 people detained, 992 people jailed in past 15 days over coup...
Turkish government has continued its massive post-coup witch hunt targeting the alleged members of the Gülen movement and the citizens from Turkey’s Kurdish minority...
Veteran journalist Ilıcak says ECtHR decision acquitted her of terrorism charges
Prominent Turkish journalist Nazlı Ilıcak, who was convicted on terrorism-related charges for previously working at media outlets considered close to the Gülen movement, said...
New gov’t decree paves way for sale of companies seized from critics
A new government decree issued on Thursday makes possible the sale of companies seized by the state as part of an ongoing witch hunt...
Journalist Sinan Aygül should not serve prison time for doing his job, CPJ says
Turkish authorities should not imprison journalist Sinan Aygül, who was convicted on charges of “violating the secrecy of an investigation” by reporting on a...
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