Turkey again blocks X accounts of pro-Kurdish media outlets
Turkish authorities on Friday blocked access to the new X accounts of the pro-Kurdish Yeni Yaşam daily and the Etkin News Agency (ETHA), the...
Turkish appeals court upholds prison sentences of 7 Kurdish journalists
The Ankara Regional Court of Justice has upheld prison sentences handed down to seven Kurdish journalists on charges of “membership in a terrorist organization,”...
Veteran correspondent dismissed from state-run TRT for third time despite court rulings
Elif Akkuş, a veteran journalist at Turkey’s state broadcaster TRT, was dismissed for a third time on Wednesday despite court rulings ordering her reinstatement,...
Turkish journalist gets suspended sentence over İmamoğlu-related reporting
A Turkish court on Tuesday handed down a one-year suspended sentence to journalist Barış Terkoğlu over reports he published alleging that a chief public...
Press freedom groups demand release of 3 journalists in Turkey
Ten press freedom organizations on Thursday called for the immediate and unconditional release of three journalists arrested in Turkey earlier this month as part...
Turkey proposes mandatory identity checks for social media, raising press freedom concerns
Turkey’s Ministry of Justice is drafting a bill requiring social media users to verify their identity through a government system, expanding state oversight of...
European Court of Human Rights decides to evaluate Altan brothers’ plea
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has decided to evaluate the application of imprisoned authors and journalists Ahmet Altan and Mehmet Altan, citing...
Turkey’s autocratic President Erdoğan says 176 of 177 journalists in jail on terrorism charges
Turkey's autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has said 176 of 177 journalists in prison in Turkey are there due to their ties to terrorist...
Turkish courts order continuation of all jailed journalists’ imprisonments
İstanbul 13th High Criminal Court in the notorious Silivri Prison compound and the 26th Heavy Penal Court at İstanbul’s Çağlayan courthouse have ordered the...
‘Turkey’s clandestine deep state gang takes revenge from prominent journalist and novelist Ahmet Altan’
Yalçın Ergündoğan, a columnist for online news portal in Turkish, Artı Gerçek, wrote that Turkey's clandestine deep state gang, Ergenekon, takes revenge from Ahmet...
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