Erdoğan takes legal action against TV anchor over tweet about a speech

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has filed a criminal complaint with İstanbul prosecutors against Fox TV news anchor Fatih Portakal, due to a tweet...

Kurdish press worker detained in dawn raid in Diyarbakır

Turkish authorities on Monday detained Zilan Gül, a press worker for the pro-Kurdish Yeni Yaşam daily, during a dawn raid on her home in...

Turkish journalist in exile subjected to harassment due to Erdoğan’s Nazi remarks

A Turkish journalist who fled an ongoing witch-hunt in Turkey against critical journalists and took refuge in Germany in the aftermath of a failed...

Turkish court decides continuation of journalists’ imprisonments in Cumhuriyet daily case

An İstanbul court ordered on Tuesday for the continuation of imprisonments of Cumhuriyet daily's jailed journalists Murat Sabuncu, Ahmet Şık, the newspaper's CEO Akın Atalay,...

Turkish government detains 774 people over their alleged links to Gülen movement in a...

Turkish government has detained at least 774 people over their alleged links to the Gülen movement in the week of September 11-18, 2017, according...

A schoolmate of Turkey’s President Erdoğan’s son to run state-owned TRT

İbrahim Eren, a schoolmate of Bilal Erdoğan, son of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, has been appointed general manager of public broadcaster TRT following...

Erdoğan’s henchman threatens exiled Turkish journalists with extrajudicial killings

Former speechwriter and a favourite henchman of Turkish autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and current ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) deputy Aydın Ünal...

Press Freedom in Turkey: 2022 in Review

The Turkish government renewed its assault on press freedom in 2022 ahead of the 2023 presidential election, including imprisoning journalists, using the regulatory authorities...

66 face legal action over social media posts about Turkey’s wildfires

Legal action has been taken against 66 people due to their social media posts about the wildfires that have been ravaging Turkey’ southern and...
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Journalist detained twice over ‘pun tweet’

Journalist Hakan Aygün was briefly detained by Turkish police and released after giving a deposition as part of a prosecution prompted by a tweet...
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