Turkey frees journalist Altan after European rights court ruling
A Turkish court on Wednesday released journalist and novelist Ahmet Altan after more than four years in prison on charges of involvement in a...
PEN Int’l and ARTICLE 19 draw attention to deterioration of freedom of expression, human...
International press freedom organizations PEN International and ARTICLE 19 have called the attention of the UN Human Rights Council to the relentless crackdown on...
Turkish gov’t blocks access to websites of 4 pro-Kurdish news outlets
Turkish government has blocked access to the websites of the pro-Kurdish news outlets Mezopotamya news agency, Özgürlükçü Demokrasi, Demokrat Haber and 1HaberVar news sites. The websites...
Gag order imposed on news reports about embassy official allegedly involved in drug trafficking:...
A court in the western Turkish province of Edirne has imposed a gag order on news reports about Veysel Filiz, a former employee of...
Turkey detains 2 journalists in morning raids
Turkish police detained journalists Kibriye Evren and Selamet Turan during Friday morning raids on their houses, Turkish media reported.
Evren was detained at her İstanbul...
Turkish prosecutor files new charges against 4 Zaman journalists
A prosecutor has filed new charges against four journalists who worked for the Zaman newspaper, which was seized on March 4, 2016 and then...
Turkish journalist faces up to 15 years on charges of insulting Erdoğan, officials
The İstanbul Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office is seeking six to 15 years in prison for journalist Furkan Karabay on charges of “insulting the president,”...
TGC calls on Turkish gov’t to release jailed journalists before elections
The state of emergency “should be lifted” and imprisoned journalists should be released ahead of upcoming elections on June 24, the Turkish Journalists Association...
Jailed HDP co-chair Demirtaş’s storybook banned in Diyarbakir Prison
A selection of short stories written by the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party's (HDP) jailed co-chair Selahattin Demirtaş was banned by Diyarbakır prison administration for “including...
CPJ urges X not to comply with Turkish court order blocking journalists’ accounts
The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has urged the administrators of X not to comply with a recent order by a Turkish court to...
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