Turkey sentenced 67 people to 299 years in prison in freedom of expression trials:...
A trial monitoring study by the Media and Law Studies Association (MLSA) has revealed that 67 people in Turkey were handed down 299 years,...
Turkish journalist faces 12 years in prison for announcing personal data leak
Turkish prosecutors are seeking a prison sentence of 12 years for journalist İbrahim Haskoloğlu, who was briefly detained in April after announcing that hackers...
Concern rises as new Turkish media law squeezes dissent
A new law gives Turkey fresh ammunition to censor the media and silence dissent ahead of elections in which President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan plans...
Erdoğan spokesman cuts off interview with Swedish journalist, alleges ‘dishonest journalism’
İbrahim Kalın, the spokesperson for Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, abruptly ended an interview with Swedish journalist Diamant Salihu and accused him of not...
Turkish journalist sentenced to nearly 300 years in prison for smearing al-Qaeda linked jihadists:...
A prominent Turkish journalist who was accused of defaming an al-Qaeda-linked radical group that endorsed Osama bin Laden and called for armed jihad and...
Dissident Iranian journalist who disappeared in Turkey deported to Iran
Mohammad Bagher Moradi, a dissident Iranian journalist who disappeared in Ankara in May, is now in the custody of Iran's powerful Islamic Revolutionary Guards...
Court hands down sentences to former Zaman daily columnists in retrial over Gülen links
Four former columnists from the now-closed Zaman daily appeared in an İstanbul court on Monday in the latest hearing of a retrial during which...
‘I’m critical of the Turkish government. I’d be ashamed of myself if I kept...
Herkül Millas, 82, a Greek-Turkish columnist for the now-closed Zaman daily who lives in Athens, said he as a government critic only wrote what...
Court upholds 5 journalists’ sentences, reverses decision to acquit another one in RedHack trial
A regional appeals court in İstanbul has upheld the sentences handed down to five journalists and reversed a decision to acquit another one of...
CPJ calls on Turkey to investigate airstrikes that killed journalists
The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) on Tuesday called on Turkey to immediately conduct a full and transparent investigation into whether Hawar News Agency...
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