Journalist Turkey detained over tweets on May election results, February earthquakes
Journalist Mehmet Kızmaz has been detained over tweets regarding the presidential and parliamentary elections in May and two devastating earthquakes that struck Turkey on...
Turkey investigates Kurdish politician for promoting his book on social media
Prosecutors in the eastern Turkish province of Kars have launched an investigation into Kurdish politician Mahmut Alınak over a series of social media posts,...
Turkey’s media watchdog demanding licenses for DW’s alternative websites
Turkey’s Radio and Television Supreme Council (RTÜK) is asking German broadcaster Deutsche Welle’s (DW) Turkish edition to secure broadcasting licenses for its alternative websites...
Turkey’s RTÜK sanctions TV station over criticism of ruling party voters
The Radio and Television Supreme Council (RTÜK), Turkey’s broadcasting regulator, has imposed a temporary broadcast ban as well as a fine on the Flash...
Turkey’s spy chief had access blocked to hundreds of news articles, social media posts
İbrahim Kalın, who was appointed head of the National Intelligence Organization (MİT) in early June, has had access blocked to hundreds of news articles,...
Article 19 calls for dismissal of charges against Turkish journalist on trial for insulting...
Article 19, a London-based international organization defending free expression worldwide, has called for the dismissal of criminal charges against a journalist who is standing trial due...
Turkish court decides to release journalist arrested over corruption report
A journalist for the T24 news website in Turkey who was put in pre-trial detention last week following a report on alleged corruption in...
Press groups call on Turkey’s top court to annul controversial media law article
Press organizations in Turkey have called on the country’s Constitutional Court to annul a controversial article of a media law which they say is...
63 journalists are imprisoned in Turkey: report
A total of 63 journalists were behind bars in Turkey as of November 3, the Artı Gerçek news website reported, citing a monthly report...
18 rights, media organizations condemn Turkish journalist’s arrest over report on corruption
Human Rights Watch (HRW) and the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) have joined 16 other media and human rights organizations in condemning the arrest of a...
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