Twitter flags Turkish interior minister’s tweets targeting LGBT community: report
Twitter has restricted access to two recent tweets by Turkish Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu that referred to LGBT people as “perverts,” saying the tweets...
VOA documentary explores erosion of press freedom under Erdoğan’s rule
Voice of America (VOA) on Wednesday released “Turkey: Breaking the Silence,” a new documentary exploring the erosion of freedom of the press in Turkey...
Turkish TV stations cut off broadcast after Uyghur woman takes the podium at party...
Turkish TV stations on Wednesday cut off their broadcast of an opposition party meeting in the Turkish Parliament after the party’s leader invited an...
Turkey sentenced 23 journalists to over 100 years in prison in 2020: report
Turkish courts handed down sentences totaling 103 years to 23 journalists in 2020, according to the “BİA Media Monitoring Report 2020,” Turkish Minute reporting,...
Turkey’s intel agency to target exiled journalist, Erdoğan’s advisor says
Mesut Hakkı Caşın, the Turkish president’s advisor on security and foreign policy, openly threatened a Swedish-based Turkish journalist with murder on live TV, broadcast...
Erdoğan blocks news about himself, his family, his senior officials: report
Forty-two percent of news reports blocked in Turkey between November 2019 and October 2020 are related to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, his family...
Turkey seeks detention of journalist over tweet mourning woman killed by ISIL: report
The İstanbul Chief Public Prosecutor’s office issued a detention warrant for veteran journalist Cengiz Çandar on the charge of praising crime and criminals over...
ECtHR rules Turkey violated rights of singer/columnist jailed on terrorism charges
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has said the rights of a famous singer and columnist who was jailed for 14 months in...
Report reveals growing pressure, judicial harassment of journalists in Turkey
An increasing number of journalists are being subjected to government pressure and judicial harassment in Turkey, where 91 journalists are currently in prison for...
Facebook jumps on bandwagon to appoint local representative to Turkey: report
Facebook — the most-visited website in Turkey — following in the footsteps of social media giants like popular video-sharing website YouTube, has decided to...
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