Streaming platforms to pay 1.5 percent of annual revenue to Turkey’s media watchdog
In yet another move tightening its grip on digital media, Turkey’s broadcasting and streaming regulator, the Radio and Television Supreme Council (RTÜK), has made...
Rights groups call Turkey’s new media law ‘dangerous, dystopian’
Human Rights Watch (HRW) and ARTICLE 19 have condemned the approval of amendments by the Turkish Parliament last week which they said introduce abusive...
Cases of Turkish journalists before ECtHR drag on as they languish in jail: report
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has yet to deliver verdicts on the cases of dozens of journalists from Turkey, many of whom...
Jailed Turkish journalist and singer Taş: My ideas even freer than a bird
Jailed columnist and singer Atilla Taş, who has been jailed over accusation of the membership to the Gülen movement, said in a letter he send...
Erdoğan signs controversial media law critics say will stifle free speech
A controversial media law that attracted widespread criticism from rights groups and the opposition on accusations it will further cripple free speech in Turkey...
Kurdish journalist/artist Zehra Doğan sends letter of gratitude to Banksy from Turkish prison
Imprisoned Kurdish-Turkish artist and journalist Zehra Doğan has expressed her gratitude for a tribute by a painter in New York as well as revealing...
Veteran journalist Çetinkaya faces risk of dying in Turkish jail
“I don’t want to lose my dad” a message posted on Twitter by Rahime Gül Çetinkaya whose father, a veteran journalist, faces risk of...
President Erdoğan says Turkish media freer today than in previous decades
Turkish media is freer today than in the ’70s, ’80s or ’90s, Turkish president and head of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP)...
Journalist İzgen Gökçe detained by Turkish police in Bartın province
Journalist İzgen Gökçe, an editor of İleri Haber, was detained by police in Turkey's Bartın province on Tuesday. During the raid the apartment of...
Turkish radio show host calls on police to kill Afrin operation critics
Kral FM radio host Ali Şentürk, known as “Afrikalı Ali,” called on security forces to kill anybody who criticizes Turkey’s operation in the Kurdish-controlled...
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