Court accepts indictment accusing 29 journalists of terrorist activity
An indictment of 29 journalists, 25 of whom are jailed, was accepted on Monday by the İstanbul 25th High Criminal Court, seeking up to...
Turkish author Perihan Mağden: I feel like a Jew in Nazi Germany
Renowned Turkish author Perihan Mağden has assessed the anti-democratic practices and increasing pressures in Turkey and described the current period in Turkey by comparing...
Journalists appeared in court 207 times in two months: opposition MP
Journalists in Turkey appeared at court hearings 207 times in the first two months of 2024, the Kronos news website reported on Wednesday, citing...
Turkish gov’t puts seized Zaman daily’s printing presses up for sale
Printing presses that once produced daily copies of the Zaman newspaper and its affiliates have been put up for sale by the state-run Savings Deposit...
Imprisoned journalist Ener’s book on human rights violations prohibited in Turkish prisons
After the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party's (HDP) jailed co-chair Selahattin Demirtaş's recently published book "Seher -- Dawn", Yeni Asya daily's jailed editor Naciye Nur...
İmamoğlu trial adjourned after courtroom dispute; journalists protest access restrictions
The trial of İstanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu and 406 other defendants was adjourned on Monday shortly after it began following a courtroom dispute over...
Int’l organizations decry Turkish court’s verdicts for Zaman journalists, calling them ‘perversion of justice’
International organizations including the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch (HRW), Reporters Without Borders (RSF), the Committee...
Closed DİHA’s journalists Güzüpek and Ertaş detained in Turkey’s Diyarbakır
Zekeriya Güzüpek, the chairman of the now-closed Dicle news agency (DİHA), a pro-Kurdish news agency and journalist Mehmet Ali Ertaş, an editor for DİHA's...
RSF 2018 report: Turkey remains world’s biggest jailer of professional journalists
Turkey continues to be the world’s biggest jailer of professional
journalists according to a report released on Tuesday by Reporters
without Borders (RSF), despite...
Journalist İzgen Gökçe detained by Turkish police in Bartın province
Journalist İzgen Gökçe, an editor of İleri Haber, was detained by police in Turkey's Bartın province on Tuesday. During the raid the apartment of...
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