15 more detained for allegedly insulting Turkey’s autocratic President Erdoğan
Fourteen people in İzmir and the chief editor of the Redaktif website, Hakan Gülseven, in Balıkesir were detained on Friday morning on grounds of...
Turkish court again bans book on Kurdish history after 17 years
A Turkish court has ruled to ban a book titled "Kurdistan Tarihi" (The History of Kurdistan), whose first edition was confiscated by the State...
Erdoğan regime’s official mouthpiece AA targets exiled Turkish journalists over Afrin messages
Turkey’s state-run Anadolu news agency (AA), which was managed by a former advisor of Turkish autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, on Sunday targeted exiled...
Turkish cartoonist given one-year jail sentence due to drawing featuring Moses
Cartoonist Seyfi Şahin, who used to work for the closed-down popular humor magazine Gırgır, has been handed down a jail sentence of one year,...
As PM Yıldırım talks about ‘Turkey’s democracy’, ban on Wikipedia streamed in caption
As Turkey’s Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım was giving an interview to BBC World News on Turkey's democratic credentials, a caption streamed simultaneously saying that "Wikipedia...
Erdoğan defines jailed journalists in Turkey as ‘terrorists, bomb attackers, thieves’
After Turkey's Deputy Minister Bekir Bozdağ, Turkey's autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has also claimed on Wednesday that nobody in Turkey is under investigation and...
Ukrainian journalists concerned over journalist İnan’s extradition to Turkey
Turkish journalist Yusuf Inan’s forced return from Ukraine to Turkey is worrisome, Sergei Tomilenko, chairman of the National Union of Journalists of Ukraine (NSJU), said...
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...
Hürriyet daily refuses to publish interview with author Pamuk for saying ‘no’ in referendum
One of the leading newspapers in Turkey, the Hürriyet daily, has refused to publish an interview with Orhan Pamuk, Turkey’s most famous writer and...
Journalist’s arrest under controversial disinformation law draws widespread condemnation
The arrest of a veteran investigative journalist under a controversial law criminalizing disinformation following his report on alleged corruption in the Turkish judiciary, which was based...
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