Turkey arrests TV journalist for insulting President Erdoğan
Turkey has arrested a well-known television journalist for comments she made on-air about President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Agence France-Presse reported on Saturday, citing her...
3 more social media users arrested for insulting Erdoğan
Three people were arrested on Thursday in Tekirdağ for “disseminating terrorist propaganda” and “insulting” Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on social media, the Cumhuriyet...
Gunman who assaulted Turkish journalist sentenced to 10 months in prison
The Turkish court overseeing the case of an armed assault against journalist Can Dündar has sentenced Murat Şahin, one of three suspects in the...
Turkish Justice Ministry claims unable to count number of jailed journalists
The Turkish Justice Ministry has failed to answer a parliamentary question from an opposition deputy about the number of journalists currently jailed in the...
Top court finds rights violation in 3-day advertising ban imposed on Cumhuriyet daily
Turkey’s Constitutional Court has ruled that a three-day advertising ban imposed on the pro-opposition Cumhuriyet daily in 2013 was a violation of the right...
Visually impaired journalist Cüneyt Arat released from prison
Visually impaired Turkish journalist Cüneyt Arat, who was jailed in July 2017 over alleged links to the Gülen movement, was released pending appeal from...
PEN Int’l calls on Turkey to lift travel restrictions imposed on writer Aslı Erdoğan
PEN International said on Monday it is concerned about travel restrictions imposed by Turkish authorities on award-winning author and honorary PEN member Aslı Erdoğan...
Report: At least 30 female journalists detained, 16 of them jailed under Turkey’s rule...
At least 30 female journalist were detained under the rule of emergency declared in the aftermath of a controversial coup attempt on July 15,...
Author Erdoğan says imposition of travel ban by Turkish gov’t is psychological torture
Turkish author Aslı Erdoğan, who was released on December 29, 2016 after 132 days in jail due to links to the pro-Kurdish Özgür Gündem...
Turkish gov’t to create its ‘truth ministry’ amid rising censorship
The Communications Directorate of the Turkish Presidency has announced that Turkey will create its own fact-checking mechanism to “fight against lies and false facts...
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