Journalist Yücel files lawsuit against Turkey for unjust imprisonment
Turkish-German journalist Deniz Yücel, who works for the German Die Welt newspaper and was jailed for about a year in Turkey on terror charges,...
Turkish gov’t launches probe against news platform established by jobless Kurdish journalists
Turkish government has launched a terror investigation against the 1HaberVar online news platform, which was established by the Kurdish journalists from the radio and...
Turkey’s ‘First Lady’ seeks to censor negative reports about her in Internet
According to an article written by Dean Sterling Jones titled "First Lady of Lumen' published in "Shooting the Messenger" basing on the data assured by the...
Report: 110 journalists appear in Turkish courts in Sept., 5 get total of 21...
In the month of September, four journalists in Turkey were detained, one was arrested, 110 appeared in court hearings, five were given a total...
Social media platforms pose threat to Turkey’s sovereignty: ruling party spokesman
Spokesman for Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) Ömer Çelik called social media companies the source of digital fascism and digital dictatorship, saying...
One in every four journalists in Turkey suffered physical violence in 2020: report
One out of every four journalists was subjected to physical violence and half of them received threats in 2020, a report recently released by...
Turkish journalist detained, fired from job after expression of condolences for Gülen on TV
A journalist in western Turkey was detained and subsequently fired from her job after she expressed condolences for Turkish-Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen during a...
Journalism under threat in Turkey, says AFP photographer
Yasin Akgül, a photojournalist for Agence France-Presse who was arrested this week after covering the huge protests rocking his native Turkey, said after his...
Courage in Journalism Award given to jailed Kurdish journalist Zehra Doğan
The Washington-based International Women’s Media Foundation (IWMF) gave one of this year’s Courage in Journalism Awards to Kurdish journalist and painter Zehra Doğan, who...
Turkish government jails at least 10 activists, 3 more journalists
Turkish government has jailed at least 10 pro-Kurdish and leftist activists and 3 more journalists in Turkey.
Twelve people were reportedly detained by Turkish police...
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