Turkey arrests 34 Egyptian journalists to accelerate normalization with Egypt: report
Turkish authorities have arrested 34 Egyptian journalists who are allegedly members of the Muslim Brotherhood in an attempt to accelerate the process of normalizing...
Turkey arrests 9 journalists working for pro-Kurdish media
Nine out of 11 journalists working for pro-Kurdish news outlets who were detained in police operations last week were arrested on Saturday, Turkish Minute...
Pro-gov’t media publishing locations of Turkish journalists in exile can lead to serious harm:...
The Committee to Protect Journalists’ (CPJ) Europe and Central Asia Program Coordinator Gulnoza Said stated that recent reports published by Turkey’s pro-government media outlets...
Detention of 11 journalists across Turkey sparks global concern, domestic outrage
The Turkish government has attracted condemnation and anger from press organizations and politicians within and without Turkey for the recent detention of 11 journalists...
Turkey’s ‘disinformation’ law tightens gov’t control and curtails freedom of expression: Amnesty
Prominent London-based rights group Amnesty International has voiced concern over a new media law in Turkey that introduces prison sentences for those “disseminating false...
Turkish police detain 11 journalists, including the mother of a 45-day-old baby
Turkish police raided the premises of several pro-Kurdish media outlets and private residences, detaining 11 journalists, including the mother of a 45-day-old infant, according...
Journalist given suspended jail sentences for insulting Erdoğan, far-right leader
A Turkish court has handed down two suspended sentences of 11 months, 20 days each to Mehmet Emin Kurnaz, an editor at the BirGün...
Turkish court to consider request to remove judge from media activists’ trial
A Turkish court agreed on Wednesday to study a request from the defense to remove a judge from the trial of three activists facing...
Internet freedom continued to decline in Turkey: Freedom House
A yearly report by Freedom House on global internet freedom reveals that internet freedom continued to decline for the fourth year in a row in Turkey...
Journalist on Turkey’s extradition list from Sweden targeted by pro-Erdoğan daily
A Turkish journalist living in exile in Sweden who’s on a list of political dissidents whose extradition is demanded by the Turkish government has...
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