Turkish digital platform removes the movie ‘No’ from lineup as presidential referendum nears
Turkish digital platform Digitürk has removed the movie “No,” which tells the story of a plebiscite in Chile in 1988 on the removal of...
Top court finds rights violation in 3-day advertising ban imposed on Cumhuriyet daily
Turkey’s Constitutional Court has ruled that a three-day advertising ban imposed on the pro-opposition Cumhuriyet daily in 2013 was a violation of the right...
Journalist Ener: I was released but there are 6 children in my old prison...
Journalist Naciye Nur Ener Kılınç, who was released from jail on Tuesday and put under house arrest, said there are six children in the...
Pro-Erdoğan daily parts ways with pro-Erdoğan journalist Yıldıray Oğur
The pro-government Türkiye daily has parted ways with journalist Yıldıray Oğur, who is known to be a staunch supporter of Turkey's autocratic President Recep...
Turkey sentenced 67 people to 299 years in prison in freedom of expression trials:...
A trial monitoring study by the Media and Law Studies Association (MLSA) has revealed that 67 people in Turkey were handed down 299 years,...
Turkish photojournalist Bülent Kılıç on ‘10 Most Urgent’ list of press freedom cases
AFP photojournalist Bülent Kılıç was included on the One Free Press Coalition’s “10 Most Urgent” list of press freedom cases, the organization announced in...
Erdoğanist media shows 29 critical journalists, activists as new targets for Turkish government persecution
Pro-Erdoğan newspapers Türkiye, Güneş, Sabah, Akşam and Star have showed 29 critical journalists, writeres and activists as new targets for Turkish government persecution on Tuesday...
Freedom of the press sustained further blows in Turkey in 2020, report reveals
A press freedom report drafted by the Turkish Journalists’ Association (TGC) for the year 2020 shows that there has been further regression in freedom...
Opposition leaders accuse Erdoğan of selling national sovereignty by transferring Khashoggi murder trial to...
Turkey’s opposition party leaders have criticized President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan for the transfer to Saudi Arabia of the trial in absentia of suspects involved...
Prominent academic returned to prison after heart procedure
Columnist for the now-closed Zaman daily and academic Mümtaz'er Türköne was sent back to prison on Saturday after doctors inserted a stent to open...
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