Turkey’s Supreme Court of Appeals declines to uphold aggravated life imprisonment of journalists
The 16th Criminal Department of Turkey’s Supreme Court of Appeals has declined to uphold the aggravated life sentences handed down by a lower court...
French journalist awaiting deportation from Turkey begins hunger strike
French photojournalist Mathias Depardon, who was detained on May 8 after photographing the local scenery in Turkey’s southeastern Batman province and is waiting for...
Faruk Akkan, head of Cihan news agency, jailed for 15 months in Turkey without...
A top media executive and a veteran journalist has been languishing behind bars for 457 days without any evidence indicating that he has committed...
Turkish prosecutor seeks up to 10 years for journalists over terrorism links
A Turkish prosecutor has sought prison sentences of up to 10 years for seven people, including five journalists,over their published work, arguing that their...
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...
Jailed journalist Mustafa Ünal about Turkish gov’t: They are strong, I am right
Mustafa Ünal (50), a veteran journalist and former Ankara bureau chief for the shuttered Zaman daily, said in a letter from İstanbul's notorious Silivri Prison,...
The Guardian asks: How does it feel to live in Turkey right now?
The commissioning editor for the London-based Guardian daily has released an online survey that asks people living in Turkey whether the ongoing crackdown on...
Journalist gets suspended sentence for depicting Turkish army as collaborating with terrorist groups
A Turkish court has handed down journalist Özlem Gürses a suspended sentence for publicly portraying the Turkish Armed Forces (TSK) as an occupying force...
Spanish police detain another Turkish writer over Erdoğan regime’s ‘red notice’ to Interpol
Turkish writer Doğan Akhanlı was detained by Spanish police in Grenata over the reason that he was wanted by Turkey with "red notice" to...
Jailed Turkish journalist Büşra Erdal: Thanks God, birds not forbidden to visit me
Jailed Turkish journalist and writer Hanım Büşra Erdal has said in a letter sent from her prison ward in İstanbul that she has been waiting...
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