Journalist receives threats for posting video of children taken to religious event in southeast...
Bilal Güldem, an editor for the pro-Kurdish Mezopotamya news agency (MA), has received numerous threats on social media after posting a video of a...
Turkey’s purge victim children would send Father’s Day gift books if not prohibited
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A group of young people whose fathers are jailed in Turkey as part of a government crackdown on dissidents gathered at Cloud Gate, Millennium...
‘Turkish police tried to kill me,’ prominent photojournalist Kılıç claims
Award-winning photojournalist Bülent Kılıç, who was detained during a Pride parade in Istanbul on Saturday, said the police tried to kill him after pushing...
Municipality demolishes headquarters of TV station shut down over Gülen links
Municipal teams in İstanbul on Tuesday demolished the former headquarters of Samanyolu TV, one of the country’s major networks before President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s...
Turkish journalist alleges mistreatment during his arrest following 2016 coup attempt
Ali Bulaç, a veteran journalist and scholar of theology, described violations of his rights while incarcerated in a YouTube interview, describing 22 months behind...
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...
Veteran Turkish journalist Lale Kemal: I was put in prison without a single piece...
Veteran journalist Lale Kemal, a columnist for the Zaman newspaper, at one time Turkey’s most highly circulated newspaper before the Turkish government's unlawful takeover...
Merkel urges Erdoğan to uphold freedom of opinion, press
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has said she stressed the importance of press freedom and freedom of opinion in Turkey during talks with President Recep...
Jailed Turkish visual journalist’s drawings on display at Minnesota art museum
“Dark White,” an exhibition of 40 works of art by visual journalist Fevzi Yazıcı that were created mostly in prison as he has been...
73 journalists appeared in court in 3rd quarter, 68 remain behind bars: report
A total of 73 journalists appeared in court in 51 trials in Turkey from July to September, while the number of journalists in jail...
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