Turkey’s Education Ministry recalls textbooks due to page on press freedom
The Turkish Education Ministry has issued a decision to immediately recall seventh grade textbooks due to a page on press censorship by the government,...
Jailed Turkish businessman İpek: ‘Accusing my mother of terrorism unacceptable’
Jailed Turkish businessman Cafer Tekin İpek, the brother of famous businessman Hamdi Akın İpek, who was the owner of multi-billion dollar Koza İpek Holding...
Erdoğan defines jailed journalists in Turkey as ‘terrorists, bomb attackers, thieves’
After Turkey's Deputy Minister Bekir Bozdağ, Turkey's autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has also claimed on Wednesday that nobody in Turkey is under investigation and...
Turkey’s deputy PM Bozdağ: Nobody is under investigation due to journalistic activities
Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Bekir Bozdağ has said nobody in Turkey is under investigation for having written an article or published a news report...
Erdoğan to Macron: It is a value to meet Turkey’s president
Turkish Presidency official Twitter account posted on Wednesday a picture of French President Emmanuel Macron and Turkey's autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan with a...
Turkish delegation attempts to censor speech at MEF-NATO PA event
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Turkish members of the delegation have attempted to interrupt a speech by Emre Çelik due to his dissident remarks during a conference organized by...
Jailed journalist Ünal: By arresting journalists you cannot save yourselves from Dec. 17-25 graft...
Former Ankara Representative of now-closed Zaman daily, Mustafa Ünal, who was standing trial after 419 days in pretrial detention, targeted the the corrupt government...
Turkey leading the list of censorship in Twitter’s transparency report
Turkey has become, once again, the leading country among the countries that have censored and requested removal of content from the Twitter most, according...
60 int’l bodies express grave concerns over digital communications in Turkey at UNHRC
Sixty international organisations from around the globe express their grave concern about the growing crackdown by states on the use of secure digital communications...
HRF advertises in NYC daily, launches #Erdoganout campaign during UNGA
The New York-based Human Rights Foundation (HRF) on Tuesday took out an advertisement in the Metro New York newspaper criticizing Turkey's autocratic President Recep...
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