Turkish court decides to release journalist arrested over corruption report
A journalist for the T24 news website in Turkey who was put in pre-trial detention last week following a report on alleged corruption in...
Press groups call on Turkey’s top court to annul controversial media law article
Press organizations in Turkey have called on the country’s Constitutional Court to annul a controversial article of a media law which they say is...
63 journalists are imprisoned in Turkey: report
A total of 63 journalists were behind bars in Turkey as of November 3, the Artı Gerçek news website reported, citing a monthly report...
18 rights, media organizations condemn Turkish journalist’s arrest over report on corruption
Human Rights Watch (HRW) and the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) have joined 16 other media and human rights organizations in condemning the arrest of a...
Journalist detained for ‘spreading misinformation’ released under judicial supervision
A Turkish journalist who was detained in western Turkey on Thursday on accusations of spreading misinformation has been released under judicial supervision after testifying to a...
Turkey detains third journalist in two days
The police in Balıkesir have detained journalist Cengiz Erdinç on accusations of spreading misinformation, in a third incident of journalist detention in two days,...
Writer to serve sentence for showing solidarity with Kurdish daily
A Kurdish writer has been sent to prison to serve a 15-month sentence on conviction of disseminating terrorist propaganda when acting as the symbolic...
Journalist’s arrest under controversial disinformation law draws widespread condemnation
The arrest of a veteran investigative journalist under a controversial law criminalizing disinformation following his report on alleged corruption in the Turkish judiciary, which was based...
Turkish journalist briefly detained for disseminating ‘misinformation’
Turkish authorities on Wednesday briefly detained journalist Dinçer Gökçe on accusations of spreading misinformation due to a news report claiming that two convicted mob...
Journalist arrested for reporting on MİT informing Erdoğan of corruption in judiciary
Tolga Şardan, a journalist with the T24 news website who was detained earlier on Wednesday following a search of his residence over an article that revealed...
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Pushbacks of Turkish asylum seekers from Greece to Turkey: Violation of the principle of...
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Turkey’s Transnational Repression: Abduction, Rendition and Forcible Return of Erdoğan Critics
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Turkey’s Abuse of INTERPOL: How Erdoğan Weaponized the International Criminal Police Organization for Transnational...
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