Journalist Hidayet Karaca has been held alone in a prison cell for more than...
Hidayet Karaca, a prominent journalist and former chief executive of the Samanyolu Media Group who was arrested in 2014 and sentenced to aggravated life,...
Turkey jails journalist Mehmet Sıddık Damar due to his social media posts
Pro-Kurdish Dihaber news agency reporter Mehmet Sıddık Damar was put in pretrial detention over his social media posts on Friday.
According to media, Damar visited a courthouse in...
Columnist fired days after vowing to vote ‘no’ in upcoming referendum
The contract of Doğan Media Group Posta daily columnist Hakan Çelenk was reportedly cancelled by the newspaper days after he sarcastically criticized government plans...
Jailed journalist Ünal: Indictment has lost validity as prosecutor suspended
Mustafa Ünal (51), a jailed veteran journalist and former Ankara bureau chief for the now-closed Zaman daily, has said since the prosecutor who indicted...
Turkish police detain 5 people for attending protests against gov’t media crackdown in 2014
Five people were detained on Tuesday for attending local protests in Sakarya province against the detention of Ekrem Dumanlı, former editor-in-chief of the now-closed...
Turkish-Armenian journalist Dink commemorated on 11th anniversary of his assassination
Thousands of people flocked on Friday to the former address of Turkish-Armenian weekly newspaper Agos in Şişli district of İstanbul to commemorate the slain...
Erdoğan says naysayers in referendum side with July 15 coup plotters
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has said those who will vote against a constitutional reform package which among other things brings an executive presidency in...
Medical school in Turkey refuses to publish scientific study due to references to evolution...
An academic article of a medical doctor from Turkey’s Marmara University Medical School has been denied by the faculty management who said it would...
Turkey ranks 3rd globally in requests for content removal from Twitter
Turkey was the third country, after Japan and Russia, that most frequently requested the removal of content from Twitter in the first half of...
60 int’l bodies express grave concerns over digital communications in Turkey at UNHRC
Sixty international organisations from around the globe express their grave concern about the growing crackdown by states on the use of secure digital communications...
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