Turkey freezes assets of 770 people, including journalists and rights activists, over alleged terrorism...
Turkey has frozen the assets of 770 people including some journalists in exile and an organization on the grounds of terrorism financing, Turkish Minute...
TURKEY PURGE IN PAST 30 DAYS: 922 dismissed, 1,711 detained, 998 jailed over coup...
A huge cleansing of Turkey’s state and other institutions is continuing as people from all walks of life find themselves being hunted down and...
Police briefly detain 4 journalists working for Russian Sputnik’s Turkish service
Turkish police briefly detained four journalists from the Turkish operation of Russia’s Sputnik news agency including its editor-in-chief, according to Sputnik.
Editor-in-chief Mahir Boztepe, who...
Top court upholds sentences given to media executive, police chiefs on terror charges
Turkey’s Supreme Court of Appeals has upheld prison sentences handed down to Samanyolu Broadcasting Group General Manager Hidayet Karaca and former police chiefs on...
Carlos Latuff: Erdoğan drags Turkey into a dictatorship in broad daylight
"(Turkey's autocratic President Recep Tayyip) Erdoğan has been dragging Turkey into a dictatorship in broad daylight, before the eyes of the world," said the...
Turkey’s Erdoğan says Saudis must prove missing journalist left their consulate alive
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan demanded on Monday that Saudi Arabia prove that journalist Jamal Khashoggi left the Saudi Consulate General in İstanbul on...
Turkish gov’t restricts Twitter following deadly earthquake in Turkey, Syria
The Turkish government restricted Twitter on multiple internet providers following a deadly earthquake that killed thousands in Turkey and Syria, global internet monitor NetBlocks...
Turkish gov’t selling properties of 9 media outlets including Yeni Hayat, Meydan, Yarına Bakış...
Properties belonging to nine of the media outlets that the Turkish government seized under post-coup emergency rule have been put up for sale by...
Court imposes access ban on 26 reports about bribery allegations against prosecutor
A Turkish court has imposed an access ban on 26 news reports concerning bribery allegations made by a mobster against a public prosecutor that...
6,033 people taken to court over allegedly insulting Turkish President Erdoğan in 2017
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan filed criminal complaints against 6,033 people in 2017 over alleged insults of him, with 2,099 of them sentenced by...
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