Cartoonist’s tweets withheld in Turkey after drawing abandoned children
The tweets of renowned cartoonist Carlos Latuff have been withheld in Turkey after he drew five children who were left alone in tears in...
3 int’l news outlets in Turkey face ban as deadline set by media watchdog...
Three international online news outlets operating in Turkey are facing an access ban as they have not applied for broadcasting licenses as demanded by...
EP’s Harms to travel to Turkey to monitor trial of Cumhuriyet journalists
Rebecca Harms, a member of the European Parliament and co-chair of the Euronest Parliamentary Assembly, will be in İstanbul from July 23 to 25...
Police seize banned volumes at book fair in eastern Turkey
Turkish police have confiscated copies of three books at a book fair in the eastern province of Tunceli on the grounds that they had...
COMMENTARY — The case of Turkish journalist İbrahim Karayeğen under torture and abuse
By Abdullah Bozkurt
Among all the 250 journalists who are currently languishing behind bars in Turkey under abusive conditions in which torture and ill-treatment are...
SCF, IOHR partner to celebrate World Press Freedom Day with a focus on Turkey
The Stockholm Center for Freedom (SCF) has partnered with the London-based International Observatory of Human Rights (IOHR) to commemorate World Press Freedom Day at...
Turkish judge tells prominent journalist to stop Erdoğan criticism at coup trial
A judge hearing the trial of seven journalists including Nazlı Ilıcak and the Altan brothers, who are being tried on coup charges, has intervened...
Owner of closed Kurdish daily and 24 people detained in Diyarbakır
A total of 25 people, including Ramazan Ölçen, owner of the pro-Kurdish daily Azadiya Welat, have been detained by Turkish police in simultaneous raids...
Turkish court sentences Cumhuriyet daily’s Güven to 3 years in jail
An İstanbul court on Tuesday handed daily Cumhuriyet's internet chief editor Oğuz Güven to 3 years and 1 month in prison for a single Tweet message...
Turkey’s watchdog grants right to collect personal information of Internet TV viewers
A newly introduced regulation has granted the authority to Turkey’s Radio and Television Supreme Council (RTÜK) to collect information about the viewers of Internet...
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