Turkish court orders seizure of exiled journalist Can Dündar’s assets
Exiled Turkish journalist Can Dündar (54) was stripped of his assets and declared a fugitive by an Istanbul court on Wednesday, Turkish media reported.
The...
Jailed journalist under investigation for sending letter detailing unsanitary prison conditions
Harun Çümen, a Turkish journalist who had sent a letter from prison about the unsanitary conditions facing inmates in prison, saying they are forced...
Facebook jumps on bandwagon to appoint local representative to Turkey: report
Facebook — the most-visited website in Turkey — following in the footsteps of social media giants like popular video-sharing website YouTube, has decided to...
Turkey among top 3 countries with steepest decline in liberal democracy index: report
Turkey is among the countries that “autocratized” the most, together with Poland and Hungary, according to the “Democracy Report 2021,” which was published by...
RSF condemns ‘political and judicial persecution’ of exiled journalist Dündar
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has condemned “Turkey’s political and judicial persecution” of exiled journalist and former Cumhuriyet daily Editor-in-Chief Can Dündar, who is facing...
Journalist convicted for covering press statement against Turkish military incursion in northern Syria
Turkish journalist Ozan Kaplanoğlu was sentenced to one year, 10 months and 15 days in prison on Thursday on terrorism-related charges for covering a...
Municipality demolishes headquarters of TV station shut down over Gülen links
Municipal teams in İstanbul on Tuesday demolished the former headquarters of Samanyolu TV, one of the country’s major networks before President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s...
Jailed Kurdish journalist Nedim Türfent made honorary member of PEN Melbourne
Jailed Kurdish journalist Nedim Türfent, who worked as a correspondent for the pro-Kurdish Dicle News Agency (DIHA), was made an honorary member of PEN...
[Interview] Index on Censorship will continue to monitor government suppression of the media in...
Author and journalist Jemimah Steinfeld said in an interview with the Stockholm Center for Freedom that the jailing of journalists in Turkey is worrying...
AKP deputy threatens BirGün daily journalist for publishing controversial video
Journalist Ismail Arı, who works for the BirGün daily, said on Twitter he was threatened by Justice and Development Party (AKP) lawmaker Ahmet Akay...
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