Turkish court lifts travel ban on Turkish-German journalist’s husband
A Turkish court on Tuesday lifted a travel ban on Suat Çorlu, the husband of Turkish-German journalist Meşale Tolu, Deutsche Welle Turkish service reported.
The...
Pro-Erdoğan daily targets yet another journalist in exile, reveals his home address
A pro-government daily has published a secretly taken photo of an investigative Turkish journalist living in exile in Sweden and revealed his home address...
Press groups call on EU to be less deferential towards Turkey on rights violations
Several international press organization under the flagship of the European Federation of Journalists (EFJ) urged the European Union (EU) and its member states to use their...
Jailed Turkish columnist Mehmet Altan’s lawyers launch petition campaign
Lawyers representing Mehmet Altan, a prominent Turkish academic and journalist who has been held in a Turkish jail for more than 22 months over...
14 press organizations protest police violence against Turkish journalists
Representatives from 14 press organizations gathered in the capital city of Ankara on Tuesday to condemn the increasing police violence against journalists in Turkey,...
UN, Int’l organizations become party before ECtHR in cases of journalists jailed by Turkey
United Nations (UN), international rights organizations, Council of Europe will become party in the cases of the arrested journalists in Turkey before the European...
Turkey’s media crackdown deepens with 13 journalist detentions in Q1, report finds
At least 13 journalists and one cartoonist were detained in Turkey in the first three months of 2026, according to a new report that...
Turkey declared ‘not free’ in world freedom report
Political and civil rights in Turkey have deteriorated so severely under President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan that Turkey is no longer a free country, according...
Jailed journalist Ahmet Böken contracts COVID-19 in prison
Ali Ahmet Böken, 49, a veteran Turkish journalist and prominent broadcaster who has been in prison over alleged links to the Gülen movement since...
RSF launches campaign to protest Turkey’s Erdoğan during UK visit
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) along with several other international press freedom organizations have launched a campaign to protest Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, who has...
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