Journalism seen as crime only in totalitarian regimes, says jailed Cumhuriyet reporter Şık
Cumhuriyet daily reporter Ahmet Şık, who was detained on Dec. 22 and arrested on Dec. 30, 2016 on charges of disseminating terrorist propaganda, said...
Turkey investigates journalists, blocks access to reports on suspicious death of female student
Turkish authorities have opened investigations into journalists reporting on the suspicious death in 2024 of university student Rojin Kabaiş and have blocked access to...
Journalists, human rights activist given suspended sentences on terror charges in Özgür Gündem trial
A Turkish court on Monday handed down suspended sentences to three journalists and prominent human rights activist Eren Keskin who were tried on charges...
Turkish gov’t sends teacher with baby to prison in 10 days for allegedly ‘praising...
Ayşe Çelik, a Turkish teacher who was sentenced to one year and three months in prison for allegedly “praising terrorism and a terrorist organization”...
Media worker detained in southeastern Turkey
Kadir Bayram, a cameraman for Piya Productions, was detained in the early hours of Tuesday in Turkey’s southeastern province of Diyarbakır, the Evrensel daily reported.
According...
Report: Germany reluctant to lift travel warning as long as Turkey keeps state of...
Despite Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu having said during a visit to Berlin that Turkey is no less safe than other European countries, the...
Rights groups call for new probe into killings of Turkish journalists amid mafia boss’...
Rights groups on Sunday urged Turkish authorities to investigate allegations by a mafia boss about the high-profile killings of two journalists in the 1990s,...
Journalist sentenced on terrorism charges for membership in women’s organization
A Turkish court has handed down a prison sentence of three years, seven months and 22 days to journalist Nurcan Yalçın on terrorism charges...
Afrin locals’ remarks intentionally mistranslated on Habertürk in favor of FSA
In an apparent move to justify an ongoing Turkish military operation in the northern Syrian town of Afrin, the remarks of several locals who...
IAJ calls on EU leaders to not ignore Turkish government’s judicial abuses
The International Association of Judges (IAJ) called on leaders of the European Union to not ignore the Turkish government's judicial abuses in a written...
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