Top court finds rights violation in conviction of journalist for reporting on corruption
Turkey’s Constitutional Court has ruled that a prison sentence imposed on a local journalist who was convicted of libel for reporting on corruption constituted...
Turkish court jails 2 more people for allegedly insulting President Erdoğan
Two people in Turkey’s Tekirdağ province were arrested on Wednesday on charges of insulting President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on social media, according to a...
Turkey reopens investigation into murder of Cypriot journalist 25 years later
Turkish prosecutors have reopened an investigation into the murder of Turkish Cypriot journalist Kutlu Adalı in 1996 based on the recent revelations of a...
Veteran correspondent from state-run TRT detained in Turkey
A correspondent from public broadcaster Turkish Radio and Television Corporation (TRT) who was suspended from her job in April has been detained in Ankara,...
Police detain 6 journalists working for Kurdish media in western Turkey
Turkish special operations police on Tuesday morning detained six journalists, most of whom work for pro-Kurdish media outlets, in simultaneous raids in the western...
EFJ: Conviction of Turkey’s Zaman journalists a politically motivated decision
"Prosecuting workers solely on the basis of their work is not based on fact but is a politically motivated decision," the European Federation of...
Cumhuriyet journalists’ lawyers appeal upcoming jail terms
The lawyers of eight former employees of the Cumhuriyet daily have appealed to an Istanbul court for the suspension of the execution of their...
US Human Rights Report: Tens of thousands jailed in Turkey with little clarity on...
The 2016 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices — the Human Rights Reports — released by the US State Department on Friday said that...
Journalist given suspended sentence on Erdoğan insult charges
A Turkish court has handed down a suspended sentence to a reporter from the anti-government Birgün daily on charges of insulting President Recep Tayyip...
Indictment levels terror charges at Turkish journalist who investigated coup attempt
An indictment drafted by an İstanbul prosecutor for Ece Sevim Öztürk, an investigative journalist who has been behind bars since June, accuses the journalist...
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