Detention period extended another 7 days for 13 journalists on Friday
An İstanbul court has extended the period of detention for another seven days of 13 journalists who were taken into custody last week as...
Actor sentenced to 11 months in prison for sharing Erdoğan cartoon
Orhan Aydın, a famous Turkish actor and columnist at Sol newspaper, was given suspended prison sentence of 11 months and 20 days for a...
Amedspor player sentenced to 19 months in jail over social media posts
Diyarbakir-based Amedspor player Deniz Naki has been given suspended prison sentence of 18 months and 22 days due to his social media posts that...
Detention warrants issued for 38 TRT employees over alleged Gülen links
The Ankara Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office has issued detention warrants for 38 people working for the state-run Turkish Radio and Television Corporation (TRT) on...
Jailed journalist Soncan: ‘A nation could never be free if its journalists are behind...
A jailed Turkish journalist presented an impressive defense to the court, saying that the history will judge Turkey on rights violations and declared a...
Police detain two journalists in eastern Turkey
Nismiye Güler and Zeynep Turgut, two reporters for the Diyarbakir-based multilingual online news portal, Gazete Sujin were detained on Thursday.
Two reporters were on way...
Police detain 8 lawyers protesting arrest of Cumhuriyet attorneys
Turkish riot police used force to disperse a group of lawyers who held a sit-in protest at the İstanbul Courthouse on Thursday in protest...
Pro-Erdoğan journalist to UK ambassador: You are all sons of *itches!
Pro-Erdoğan TV presenter Ertem Şener on Wednesday attacked Richard Moore, British ambassador to Turkey, on social media, using offensive language that included expletives.
“Boss of...
Dutch MPs bring threats against Turkish journalist to parliament’s agenda
Two members of the Dutch House of Representatives, Democrats 66 (D66) members Jan Paternotte and Van Meenen, have submitted a written motion directed to...
CCBE, EFJ and EAJ urge Turkey to release all judges, prosecutors, lawyers and journalists
The Council of Bars and Law Societies of Europe (CCBE), the European Federation of Journalists (EFJ), and the European Association of Judges (EAJ) have...
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