Turkey jails former reporter over footage shot 15 years ago
A Turkish court on Monday jailed former Cihan News Agency reporter Osman Arslan pending trial over footage he shot 15 years ago of intelligence...
5 journalists get suspended sentences, 1 acquitted of charges in RedHack trial
A Turkish court has handed down suspended sentences to five journalists and acquitted another one of charges in a trial concerning their reporting on...
Turkish court again refuses to release journalist Altan despite top court’s ruling
İstanbul’s 26th High Criminal Court on Friday rejected a demand again for release filed by lawyers representing journalist Mehmet Altan despite a decision by...
HDP sends a letter to int’l press bodies on media embargo applied to the...
Pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) Deputy Co-Chair Saruhan Oluç has written a letter to the national and international media organizations regarding the grave media...
Jailed HDP leader Demirtaş: My prison cell was searched after tweets from my account
Imprisoned Kurdish political leader Selahattin Demirtaş said in messages posted on his Twitter account on Saturday that his cell was searched after tweets were...
Working for Gülen-linked media, doubting gov’t coup story not grounds for terror charges: ECtHR
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has ruled in the case of prominent journalist Nazlı Ilıcak that working for media outlets close to...
Turkish court is retrying RSF representative on terror charges
Turkey on Wednesday began the retrial of the country’s Reporters Without Borders (RSF) representative and two other human rights defenders on terror charges that...
French journalist awaiting deportation from Turkey begins hunger strike
French photojournalist Mathias Depardon, who was detained on May 8 after photographing the local scenery in Turkey’s southeastern Batman province and is waiting for...
3 Kurdish journalists referred to court for arrest, 6 released under judicial supervision
Three out of nine Kurdish journalists who were detained earlier this week have been referred to court for arrest after testifying to a prosecutor...
Indictment of Kurdish journalists jailed for 10 months accepted by court
A high criminal court in southeastern Turkey has accepted an indictment of 21 people, the vast majority of whom are Kurdish journalists who have...
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