Zaman employee says in Turkish court facing life sentence due to a TV commercial
Yakup Şimşek (53), the brand marketing manager of now-closed Zaman daily, one-time best-selling newspaper in Turkey, has said he is facing a life sentence...
Turkish academic Çalışkan sentenced to 18 months in prison over Gülen propaganda
Associate Professor Koray Çalışkan, who was detained on July 10, 2017 as part of an investigation into 20 university academics and later released under...
Woman jailed for insulting Turkish President Erdoğan on social media
A 54-year-old woman was arrested on Sunday in Eskişehir province for allegedly insulting Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on social media, private news agency...
İYİ Party member detained by Turkish police for tweet claiming Halkbank to be fined...
An İstanbul court has ruled for the pretrial detention of Kerim Yılmaz, a High Advisory Board member of the İYİ Party, over a tweet...
Survey shows Turkey is leader in fake news in the world
Turkey (with 49 percent) has become the country that suffered the most in fake news, disinformation and misleading reports among the 37 countries, which...
EFJ: Conviction of Turkey’s Zaman journalists a politically motivated decision
"Prosecuting workers solely on the basis of their work is not based on fact but is a politically motivated decision," the European Federation of...
Turkish court sentences 10 TRT journalists to prison over alleged links to Gülen movement
A Turkish court on Wednesday sentenced 10 journalists who used to work for Turkish public broadcaster TRT to between six years, three months and...
Currency crisis hits publishing industry in Turkey
A sharp decline in the value of the Turkish lira has led to a crisis in the publishing sector since Turkey imports almost all...
1,200 newspaper staff facing job loss due to Turkey’s advertising authority decision
A decision by Turkey’s state-run Press Advertising Authority (BİK) announced on Saturday could result in 1,200 newspaper employees losing their jobs amid a currency...
Imprisoned journalist Şirin Kabakçı: Raise your voices for jailed journalists in Turkey
Jailed Turkish journalist Şirin Kabakçı, who used to be the Konya bureau chief for the Zaman newspaper, Turkey’s most highly circulated newspaper before the...
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