Journalist Baransu’s wife says she’s suffering civil death due to husband’s incarceration: report
Nesibe Baransu, the wife of Turkish journalist Mehmet Baransu, who has been behind bars for more than five years, on Tuesday told the Jailed...
A student of fine arts jailed over charge of ‘insulting’ Turkey’s President Erdoğan
Gizem Yerik, as student from the Department of Fine Arts at Bursa's Uludağ University was arrested again on Thursday as her sentence over charge of...
Prosecutor seeks prison sentence for journalist who returned to Turkey for election campaign
A prosecutor demanded a prison sentence for a veteran Turkish journalist the day after he returned to Turkey to run for a seat in parliament...
Journalist Nevşin Mengü faces judicial harassment, online smear campaign over interview: report
Turkish journalist Nevşin Mengü has faced judicial harassment and a coordinated online smear campaign after publishing an interview with Salih Müslim, an official of...
Turkish courts handed down sentences to 41 journalists in first half of 2019
The Free Journalists Initiative (ÖGİ) has announced that the first six months of the year saw the trial of 287 journalists, 41 of whom...
Turkish state-run Anadolu news agency harasses exiled journalist Vatandaş
Turkey's state-run Anadolu news agency (AA) has harassed yet another Turkish journalist who has been forced to live abroad, contributing to the intensified campaign of...
Funds to Erdoğan’s media by state banks kept secret from Turkey’s Parliament
Turkish government hid behind ‘client privacy’ and ‘trade secret’ protections in revealing how much credit and advertisement payments by state-lenders was funneled to pro-government...
Turkish court hands down suspended sentence to singer on insult charges
An İstanbul court hearing a retrial has handed down a suspended sentence of more than two years to singer Atilla Taş on conviction of...
Scholars to Erdoğan: Persecution of Professor Şık shows your disregard for academic freedom and...
In a letter to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Professor Dina Rizk Khoury, president of the US-based Middle East Studies Association (MESA), urged that...
Jailed Turkish journalist Aydın: I am about to drown, I want a little oxygen
Turkish journalist Hüseyin Aydın, who has been held in İstanbul's notorious Silivri Prison for more than two years, has expressed his feelings in a...
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