Turkish survey on WhatsApp raises concerns of possible ban after Wikipedia
A survey by the Turkish Telecommunications Authority (BTK) on what other applications people might use if mobile application WhatsApp were not available has raised...
Turkish Consulate in Warsaw seized passport of a news portal founder
Turkey’s General Consulate in Warsaw has seized the passport of a Turkish national in Poland as part of increasing pattern of arbitrary refusal of...
Journalist Nevin Yıldız detained with one-year-old baby in İstanbul
Journalist Nevin Yıldız, the responsible manager of the now-closed TV10 TV station, was detained at İstanbul’s Sabiha Gökçen Airport on Tuesday night with her...
French journalist Depardon detained in Turkey’s Batman
French photojournalist Mathias Depardon was detained on Monday after photographing the local scenery in Batman province.
Erol Önderoğlu, the Turkey representative of Reporters Sans Frontières,...
Cumhuriyet reporter Coşkun receives suspended sentence for story over Turkey’s MİT
An İstanbul court on Tuesday decided on a suspended 10-month sentence for Cumhuriyet daily reporter Canan Coşkun for her reports on the Turkish intelligence...
Wikipedia challenges access ban at Turkey’s top court
Online encyclopedia Wikipedia has taken a court decision to ban access to the website that went into effect on April 29 to Turkey’s Constitutional...
Student given house arrest for allegedly ‘insulting’ President Erdogan on Twitter
A university student has been sentenced to house arrest for allegedly insulting Turkey's autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan by retweeting a post in Twitter.
According...
Pro-gov’t journalist says killing Gülen followers, even their babies a religious obligation
Hüseyin Adalan, a journalist working for a number of pro-government media outlets, has said it is a religious obligation to kill all followers of...
EU reacts to journalist Parıldak’s re-arrest
The European Union (EU) has reacted to the recent re-arrest of 27 year-old Turkish journalist Ayşenur Parıldak after she was released pending trial.
Parıldak, a...
Turkish police raid publishing house in İstanbul, detain editors, seize 2,170 books
Turkish police on Sunday night raided the Belge Publishing House in İstanbul, searching the venue for about three hours, Turkish media reports have said.
The...
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