Turkey investigates journalist over alleged disclosure of confidential state report
Turkish prosecutors have opened an investigation into a journalist over the alleged disclosure of a confidential state report in a 2022 article, following a...
Press groups urge Turkey to release journalist before court hearing
The International Press Institute, the Committee to Protect Journalists, the European Federation of Journalists and other press freedom and human rights groups have called on Turkey...
Turkey investigates veteran journalist for allegedly insulting Erdoğan
Turkish prosecutors have opened an investigation into veteran journalist Ertuğrul Özkök over remarks authorities say may have insulted President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan during an...
Turkish journalist faces 5 years in prison over posts on deadly building collapse
Turkish prosecutors are seeking more than five years in prison for journalist Alican Uludağ over social media posts about a deadly building collapse that...
British lawmakers urge May gov’t to act for oppressed journalists in Turkey
As the British Prime Minister Theresa May and her government have not hesitated to visit, to negotiate, to give support and to give a...
İstanbul court gives 18 months jail term for journalist Çelikkan, 15 months for academic...
Journalist and author Murat Çelikkan, who joined ‘the Editor-in-Chief on Watch’ campaign in solidarity with the pro-Kurdish Özgür Gündem daily, which was later shut...
CoE experts discuss freedom of expression, terrorism with Turkish officials in Ankara
Experts from the Council of Europe (CoE) visited the Turkish capital of Ankara and held discussions with officials from Turkey’s Justice Ministry on Thursday...
SCF sounds the alarm on jailed journalists in Turkey at Mänskliga Rättighetsdagarna
Stockholm Center for Freedom (SCF) urged Turkish government to release jailed journalists, drop the fabricated charges and stop the crackdown on independent, critical and...
Pro-Erdoğan TV presenter threatens Cumhuriyet daily over Afrin story
Yusuf Ozan, a presenter for the pro-government Akit TV, on Sunday targeted the Cumhuriyet daily over a story it ran on the Afrin operation...
Jailed Turkish journalist Mustafa Ünal: My scream for justice has faded away in a...
Mustafa Ünal (50), a jailed veteran journalist and former Ankara bureau chief for the shuttered Zaman daily, has urged the judges in his trial to...
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