Social media restrictions persist in Turkey after police blockade of CHP İstanbul office
Access to social media and messaging platforms in Turkey remained severely restricted on Monday, more than 12 hours after police blockaded the İstanbul headquarters...
Report: Government’s surveillance invades social media privacy in Turkey
"State employees in Turkey have been forced to participate in an incrimination of their own freedom of thought and expression. State authorities, as employers,...
Turkish court decides continuation of 10 out of 13 journalists’ imprisonment
An İstanbul court has decided for continuation of the imprisonment of 10 out of 13 journalists following a Turkish prosecutor has asked for a...
Jailed visual journalist’s work to be exhibited at New York art gallery
Forty works of art by visual journalist Fevzi Yazıcı, created mostly in prison as he has been behind bars since August 2016 on terrorism...
Turkey blocks Dündar’s recently launched news website
An Ankara court has ruled to block ozguruz.org website, a German-based online news portal launched on Jan. 24 by exiled Turkish journalist Can Dündar.
The website was blocked...
US urges Turkey to end state of emergency, respect freedom of expression
The US on Thursday expressed “serious concern” about the widespread arrest and pre-trial detention of journalists critical of the Turkish government.
“We urge Turkey to...
Turkish gov’s goes on silencing critical people, censoring media, targeting peace defending
Turkish government's fight against free speech and peace defenders has continued full gear as new detentions come over social media content criticising Turkish military...
Erdoğan calls Turkey’s jailed journalists ‘thieves, child abusers, terrorists’
At a time when Turkey ranks the first among a list of countries with the highest number of jailed journalists, Turkey’s autocratic President Recep...
IPI – MLSA study: Turkish journalists convicted for their work
According to a trial monitoring study conducted in Turkey by the Media and Law Studies Association (MLSA) and the International Press Institute (IPI), journalistic...
Despite peace talks, Turkey blocks access to social media accounts of pro-Kurdish news outlets
Turkish authorities have blocked access to the social media accounts of several pro-Kurdish media outlets, sparking criticism and raising questions about the government’s sincerity...
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