ÇGD report: 318 journalists detained, 103 jailed in Turkey in one year
A recently-released quarterly press report by the Contemporary Journalists’ Association (ÇGD) has revealed that 318 journalists were detained and 103 of them were jailed...
Turkish court sentences journalist Kuru with 6 years of imprisonment over working for Zaman...
Turkish journalist Mehmet Kuru was sentenced by a Turkish court to 6 years and 3 months prison term only for the fact that he...
CPJ calls on Turkey to stop prosecuting journalists covering Kurdish issues, release jailed members...
The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has called on Turkey to immediately release all imprisoned members of the press and stop prosecuting journalists who cover Kurdish issues.
The Diyarbakır...
Leaked documents expose Sweden’s secretive attempts to deny or delay asylum, residency for Erdoğan...
Leaked documents accessed by Dagens ETC journalists have revealed that Sweden secretly altered its immigration procedures to deny or delay asylum or residency to...
Yeni Asya journalists to be tried on terrorism charges arising from tweets and cartoons
Kazım Güleçyüz, the editor-in-chief of the critical Yeni Asya daily, and the paper’s cartoonist, İbrahim Özdabak, will stand trial on terrorism charges due to...
Turkish justice minister claims only 30 journalists jailed in Turkey
Turkish Justice Minister Bekir Bozdağ has claimed that there are only 30 journalists in Turkey’s prisons and that some jailed individuals may have wrongfully...
Turkish gov’t sentences two Kurdish journalists to ten months in prison
A Turkish court has sentenced two Kurdish journalists to 10 months in prison for publishing a statement made by a Kurdish separatist organisation Kurdistan...
Turkey questions journalist over report on plane crash carrying Libyan delegation
Journalist Tolga Şardan has been questioned by prosecutors in Ankara over his reporting on the crash of a plane carrying a high-level Libyan military...
Turkey blocks X accounts of journalists, media outlets over Syria-related content
Turkish authorities have restricted access to dozens of X accounts belonging to journalists, a former lawmaker and media organizations, citing “national security and public...
Writer imprisoned in Turkey not given food or water for 2 days
Celalettin Can, a writer incarcerated in an İstanbul prison, was not given food or water for two days, the Evrensel newspaper reported on Tuesday.
The...
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