Turkish journalists charged for terror over comments on US-indicted sanction buster Zarrab

A Turkish public prosecutor who accused 29 journalists on terrorism charges cited articles and Twitter messages on US-indicted gold trader Reza Zarrab, who bribed...

Gun shootings target opposition daily Cumhuriyet

An unidentified person who drove in a taxi by the building of opposition daily Cumhuriyet in Şişli district of İstanbul shot at the wall...

Bomb threat in German town that cancelled Turkish minister’s speech

German police on Friday called for the evacuation of the city hall in the southwestern German town of Gaggenau after it received a bomb...

Pro-gov’t Star daily says jailed Die Welt reporter ‘not a journalist, a PKK hit-man’

The front page of the pro-government Star daily on Thursday bore a headline that targeted jailed Die Welt reporter Deniz Yücel saying he is...

Akşener reminds justice minister how she was prevented from speaking

Meral Akşener, previously a candidate for chairmanship of the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP), has reminded Justice Minister Bekir Bozdağ how a program of hers...

Artist and journalist Zehra Doğan sentenced for 3 years of prison

Artist and journalist Zehra Doğan, who was released from prison on December 9, was sentenced for 2 years, 9 months and 22 days of...

Bozdağ retaliates by canceling meeting with German minister over arrested journalist row

Turkish Justice Minister Bekir Bozdağ has reacted against a German decision not to allow him to give a speech arranged for Thursday evening, saying...

JİNHA correspondent Aysel Işık released from prison

Pro-Kurdish JİNHA (Jin News Agency) correspondent Aysel Işık, who was arrested in November 2016, has been released after a trial in the Şırnak 2nd...

Jailed journalist Tunca Öğreten gets married in prison

Diken news website editor Tunca Öğreten, who was arrested in Jan. 17 for publishing stories on the leaked emails of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s...

Pro-gov’t TV presenter avoids prosecution for insult of Armenian deputy

The Ankara Public Prosecutor’s Office has declined to investigate pro-government A Haber TV presenter Özlem Özcan, who called Garo Paylan, an Armenian deputy from...

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