CoE survey shows Turkey among countries where journalists assaulted most frequently
A survey published by the Council of Europe (CoE) on Thursday showed that Turkey is among the countries where physical assaults and physical threats...
Critical news portal editor detained due to stance on referendum
One of the editors at the critical news website sendika.org, Ali Ergin Demirhan, was detained on Thursday morning due to his stance on a...
Gun attack targets critical journalist İrfan Değirmenci’s house
An armed attack was staged on the dissident journalist İrfan Degirmenci’s house in İstanbul on early Wednesday. “My house was shot with bullets towards...
Court accepts 274-page indictment into journalists, executives of Cumhuriyet daily
An İstanbul court accepted the 274-page indictment into columnists and executives of Cumhuriyet daily on Tuesday, nearly five months after the investigation was launched, with...
İstanbul court re-arrests 12 journalists, releases 1 in a contrived trial
An İstanbul court has re-arrested 12 out of 13 journalists who were re-detained on April 1 as part of an investigation into a July...
SCF’s website blocked in Turkey
An Ankara court has ruled to block the web site of Stockholm Center for Freedom, an advocacy organization that promotes the rule of law,...
Three consecutive life sentences sought for prominent journalists on coup charges
An indictment prepared by the İstanbul Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office seeks three consecutive life sentences for 16 people including Turkey’s prominent journalists, on coup...
Erdoğan says extradition of Die Welt journalist impossible as long as he is in...
Turkey's autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has said extradition of Turkish-German journalist Deniz Yücel, who was jailed in Turkey in February, to Germany will...
Turkey is no longer a country governed by the rule of law, says a...
In a new report unveiled today as part of continuing series that focus on human rights violations and arbitrariness in the application of the...
ECtHR to take up Cumhuriyet journalists’ cases on priority basis
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has decided to examine on a priority basis applications filed by jailed journalists and executives from the...
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