Turkey denies entry to New York Times reporter
The New York Times reported that Turkey denied entry to one of its veteran reporters, Rod Nordland, at İstanbul Atatürk Airport on Tuesday, with...
Turkish TV anchor testifies due to allegedly insulting Erdoğan in tweet about banned theater...
Turkey’s private FOX TV anchor Fatih Portakal testified to a prosecutor in Istanbul after an investigation was launched to determine whether he had insulted...
Turkey’s largest media group Doğan sold to Demirören
The largest media company in Turkey, the Doğan Media Group, which has been harshly criticized for acting as a mouthpiece of the Turkish government...
Turkey’s CHP: Some 50 post-coup victims committed suicide, 14 disappeared in 2017
Nearly 50 people committed suicide after being subjected to post-coup rights violations while 14 others were forced or attempted to disappear between January 1...
Turkish author Yiğit sued by Erdoğan family, Islamist IHH over her book on ISIL
Family members and relatives of Turkish autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, including his son Bilal Erdoğan, son-in-law and Turkish Energy Minister Berat Albayrak, and...
Jailed main Turkish opposition deputy Berberoğlu: I have been isolated for a year
Elis Berberoğlu, a jailed deputy from Turkey's main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP), complained of isolation in prison to Pınar Türenç, head of the...
Exiled Turkish journalist Uslu ‘sworn at,’ ‘threatened with death’ in US
Emre Uslu, an exiled Turkish journalist living in in the United States, tweeted on Sunday that he was sworn at and threatened with death...
EU’s Hahn says urgent need for negative trend in Turkey to be reversed
https://youtu.be/gXGr-mr740o
Johannes Hahn, the European commissioner for neighborhood policy and enlargement negotiations, said on Tuesday that there is an urgent need for the negative trend...
Exiled journalist indicted for insulting President Erdoğan in report on convicted jihadist
Swedish-based Turkish journalist Abdullah Bozkurt was indicted in Turkey over an article he wrote about a convicted jihadist, with the public prosecutor claiming that...
When the last barricade falls: Remembering unlawful takeover of Turkey’s largest daily
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHekYe-4dyQ
On March 4, 2016, exactly one year ago today , hundreds of riot police officers fired rubber bullets and gassed loyal readers of Turkey’s...
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