Turkey remains world’s worst jailer of journalists, CPJ report says
According to a report released on Thursday by media freedom advocacy
group the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), Turkey remains the
world’s worst jailer...
9 Kurdish journalists released following 7 months in pretrial detention
Nine Kurdish journalists, eight of whom were put in pretrial detention on terrorism charges in October, were released by a local court in Ankara...
Turkey saw crackdown on journalists escalate in Q4, with dozens behind bars: report
Some 200 journalists appeared in court in 102 trials in Turkey from October to December, while the number of journalists in jail rose from...
Turkish court arrests journalist Mustafa Gökkılıç over probe into intelligence chief
An İstanbul court on Thursday ruled to arrest journalist Mustafa Gökkılıç and five others as part of an investigation into the 2012 summoning of Hakan...
Journalist receives threats for posting video of children taken to religious event in southeast...
Bilal Güldem, an editor for the pro-Kurdish Mezopotamya news agency (MA), has received numerous threats on social media after posting a video of a...
Social media giants fined by Turkish government under controversial social media law
Turkish authorities have fined several social media companies, including Facebook, Twitter, Tik Tok and YouTube, 10 million Turkish lira (1.3 million euros) each under...
Detention warrants issued for 38 TRT employees over alleged Gülen links
The Ankara Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office has issued detention warrants for 38 people working for the state-run Turkish Radio and Television Corporation (TRT) on...
Turkish cartoonist given one-year jail sentence due to drawing featuring Moses
Cartoonist Seyfi Şahin, who used to work for the closed-down popular humor magazine Gırgır, has been handed down a jail sentence of one year,...
Turkey detains 6 journalists covering Syria border protest
Turkish authorities on Wednesday detained six journalists near the border in southeastern Turkey while they were covering a protest against the Syrian army’s offensive...
40 mg dose of unspecified substance killed Khashoggi, Saudi letter to Turkey claims: report
A letter sent by Saudi authorities to their Turkish counterparts before the halt of the trial in absentia of 26 suspects linked to the...
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