Turkey tightens internet censorship, bans access to 16 VPN providers

Turkey’s Information and Communications Technologies Authority (BTK) has banned access to 16 VPN providers that are frequently used to circumvent government censorship, Turkish Minute...

Turkey’s Erdoğan says Germany obsessed with journalist Deniz Yücel

Turkey's autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said Germany has become obsessed with journalist Deniz Yücel, jailed in Turkey since Feb. 14, underlining that he...

Turkey bans access to 136 websites, URLs

A Turkish court has banned access to 136 websites and URLs, including a Twitter account, news websites and blogs, at the request of the...

Report: 721 critical Twitter accounts currently banned by Turkish government

At least 721 critical Twitter accounts are currently banned in Turkey, according to a report by US-based BuzzFeed online news outlet. Obtaining data from Twitter...

RSF calls on EU leaders to insist on press freedom at summit with Turkey

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has written a letter to European Union leaders in advance of an EU-Turkey summit in Varna, Bulgaria, on March 26...

COMMENTARY — Turkey attempted to thwart CoE media alert platform

By Abdullah Bozkurt Feeling both shamed and troubled by the number of alerts posted on the Council of Europe (CoE) Platform for the Safety of...

Turkish gov’t prosecutes 178 people over social media posts in a week

The Turkish government has investigated 274 social media accounts and taken legal action against 178 users over the last week (Aug. 27-Sept. 3) on...

EP to Turkey: Journalists cannot be jailed and accused of terrorism for doing their...

Leaders of five party groups in the European Parliament (EP) reminded Turkey in a letter to Turkey's autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Prime...

Austrian FM Kurz says Turkey’s Erdoğan acts like a dictator

Austrian Foreign Minister Sebastian Kurz said Turkey's autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has been acting like a dictator, Deutsche Welle reported on Wednesday. Speaking to...

Journalist Yücel lambastes İnce over Brunson crisis: Turkey is a state of gangs

Deniz Yücel, a German Turkish journalist who spent more than a year in pre-trial detention in Turkey, has criticized previous Republican People’s Party (CHP)...
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