Prosecutor demands additional prison sentence for jailed journalist in new indictment
An Istanbul prosecutor in a new indictment has demanded another prison sentence for Merdan Yanardağ, the editor-in-chief of Turkish broadcaster TELE1, who was arrested...
Indictment seeks up to 10-year sentence for jailed journalist
An indictment drafted by İstanbul prosecutors seeks a prison sentence of up to 10-and-a-half years for a journalist who was arrested last month for his remarks on...
15 Kurdish journalists released from jail pending trial after lengthy detention
A Turkish court has ruled for the release pending trial of 15 Kurdish journalists who had been held in pretrial detention for 13 months,...
Turkey leads the world in legal harassment of women journalists
Turkey has the highest rate of legal harassment of women journalists in the world and ranks second in the number of women journalists imprisoned,...
Media worker detained in southeastern Turkey
Kadir Bayram, a cameraman for Piya Productions, was detained in the early hours of Tuesday in Turkey’s southeastern province of Diyarbakır, the Evrensel daily reported.
According...
Int’l rights groups call on EU to prioritize media freedom, human rights in relations...
International media freedom and human rights organizations have called on the incoming Spanish Presidency of the Council of the European Union to place media freedom and...
Local journalist briefly detained for reporting on sexual harassment of child in SE Turkey
A local journalist has been briefly detained for sharing a video of an elderly man sexually harassing a 2-year-old girl in Turkey’s southeastern Şanlıurfa...
Turkey arrests journalist for remarks on jailed PKK leader
A Turkish court on Tuesday ruled to arrest a journalist on charges of disseminating terrorism propaganda due to his televised remarks about Abdullah Öcalan,...
Detention of Turkish columnist arbitrary; writing columns, books cannot justify detention, says UN working...
The United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD) has concluded that the arrest and detention of Ali Ünal, a theologian and former columnist for the...
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