Turkish internet celebrity faces prison for spreading disinformation about 2023 earthquakes
Turkish social media celebrity Oğuzhan Uğur is facing a prison sentence of up to four-and-a-half years due to social media posts in the aftermath...
Evrensel editor Sarı gets 11 months in jail for allegedly ‘insulting’ Turkish President
Çağrı Sarı, the managing editor of leftist daily Evrensel has been given 11 months 20 days prison sentence for allegedly insulting Turkish autocratic President...
Pinterest jumps on bandwagon to appoint local representative to Turkey
The popular image-sharing platform Pinterest has announced that it will appoint a local representative to Turkey in line with a controversial social media law...
Gunman who assaulted Turkish journalist sentenced to 10 months in prison
The Turkish court overseeing the case of an armed assault against journalist Can Dündar has sentenced Murat Şahin, one of three suspects in the...
EP’s Harms to travel to Turkey to monitor trial of Cumhuriyet journalists
Rebecca Harms, a member of the European Parliament and co-chair of the Euronest Parliamentary Assembly, will be in İstanbul from July 23 to 25...
8 Anadolu news agency reporters detained over ByLock use
Eight reporters working for Turkey’s state-run Anadolu news agency have been detained over their use of a smart phone application known as ByLock .
ByLock...
Turkish appeals court upholds sentence of photojournalist who captured murder of Kurdish student in...
A Turkish appellate court on Thursday upheld the conviction of photojournalist Abdurrahman Gök, who took pictures of a university student being shot to death...
Turkish court releases pro-Kurdish journalist Duran from prison for health reasons
A Turkish court ruled on Monday to release jailed journalist Metin Duran from prison following a report issued by Turkey's Institute of Forensic Medicine...
Turkey gov’t systematically jails women in persecution of critics
As part of escalating crackdown on dissent and criticism which landed almost 50,000 people in jail in the last six months alone, Turkish government...
Turkish court upholds prison sentences for staff members of Cumhuriyet daily
A regional appeals court in İstanbul on Tuesday upheld the prison sentences of 14 people including journalists, board members and media workers from the...
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