Zaman employee says in Turkish court facing life sentence due to a TV commercial
Yakup Şimşek (53), the brand marketing manager of now-closed Zaman daily, one-time best-selling newspaper in Turkey, has said he is facing a life sentence...
More than 36,000 people faced criminal investigation for insulting President Erdoğan in 2019
The number of people investigated for insulting President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is increasing every year, with 36,066 people facing criminal investigations in 2019, the...
Hahn, EU commissioner for enlargement, says Turkey’s EU dream is over
Johannes Hahn, the European Union‘s (EU) commissioner for enlargement, declared that "Turkey's EU dream is over, for now," in an interview to Reuters. Turkey,...
Twitter suspends account of closed-down pro-Kurdish newspaper
Social media company Twitter has suspended the account of Özgür Gündem, a pro-Kurdish daily that was closed down by a Turkish court in 2016...
168 Turkish journalists appeared in court in 3 months: report
A total of 168 journalists appeared at hearings in their trials in Turkey from April to June, according to a recent report prepared by...
Turkish journalist investigating controversial coup attempt in 2016 detained
Ice Sevim Öztürk, a Turkish investigative journalist who produced a documentary on a controversial coup attempt on July 15, 2016 and promised to shock...
Turkish gov’t restricts social media for 10 hours after deadly blast in İstanbul
The Turkish government imposed a 10-hour restriction on social media platforms on multiple internet providers in Turkey on Sunday following a deadly explosion in...
Turkey made highest number of removal requests to Twitter in 2019, report shows
A report drafted by the Freedom of Expression Association (İFÖD) has shown that Turkey made the highest number of applications to the Twitter social...
Turkish Cypriot journalist, his newspaper file suit against Turkey’s Erdoğan
Şener Levent and Turkish Cypriot publishing company Afrika have filed a lawsuit against Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan for instigating attacks on the newspaper...
‘Turkey’s clandestine deep state gang takes revenge from prominent journalist and novelist Ahmet Altan’
Yalçın Ergündoğan, a columnist for online news portal in Turkish, Artı Gerçek, wrote that Turkey's clandestine deep state gang, Ergenekon, takes revenge from Ahmet...
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