Press Freedom

Turkey’s so-called “disinformation law,” which criminalizes the public spread of false information, has become a tool for silencing the press, with more than 300...

Ten years after a coup attempt on July 15, 2016, Turkey's independent media has been largely dismantled through a combination of mass imprisonment, outlet...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=8s&v=VDuY8p8qtj0&app=desktop Marianne Mikko, co-rapporteur on the post-monitoring dialog with Turkey, Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), criticized Turkey for jailing journalists en masse,...

All 21 journalists who were arrested again early on Saturday, hours after being released pending trial on Friday, were taken to police headquarters after...

Assessing the state of the media in Turkey in a report for the anniversary of a controversial coup attempt in the country on July...

A court reporter who had covered Turkey’s high-profile terrorism, organized crime, drug and corruption cases for years is being falsely accused of terrorism and...

Hidayet Karaca, a jailed Turkish journalist and the former chairman of the now-closed Samanyolu Broadcasting Group, has reportedly been put into solitary confinement following...

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu on Friday refused to answer two questions from a Kazakh journalist during a joint press conference in Astana, likening...

Gökhan Öner, a reporter for the now-closed pro-Kurdish news agency Dihaber, has been put by a Turkish court in pretrial detention on terror charges. Öner...

"The media landscape comprises numerous broadcast and print outlets, most of which are considered to be associated with the ruling political party," said the Office...