Jailed Turkish journalist Aydın: I am about to drown, I want a little oxygen
Turkish journalist Hüseyin Aydın, who has been held in İstanbul's notorious Silivri Prison for more than two years, has expressed his feelings in a...
Journalist faces investigation for reporting on dismissed pilot’s death
Sevinç Özarslan, a Turkish journalist living in exile, is under investigation by prosecutors in Kayseri following her report on the death of Yahya Tarih,...
Turkish gov’t jails 10 social media users on terror charges
A total of 10 Kurdish social media users have been sent to prison on charges of “disseminating terrorist propaganda” and “membership in an armed...
Turkish court lifts travel ban on Turkish-German journalist’s husband
A Turkish court on Tuesday lifted a travel ban on Suat Çorlu, the husband of Turkish-German journalist Meşale Tolu, Deutsche Welle Turkish service reported.
The...
Top appeals court upholds prison sentence for Kurdish journalist convicted of terror-related charges
Turkey’s Supreme Court of Appeals has upheld a prison sentence of almost two years for a journalist in southeastern Turkey who was convicted of...
Turkey’s Education Ministry recalls textbooks due to page on press freedom
The Turkish Education Ministry has issued a decision to immediately recall seventh grade textbooks due to a page on press censorship by the government,...
President Erdoğan says Turkish media freer today than in previous decades
Turkish media is freer today than in the ’70s, ’80s or ’90s, Turkish president and head of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP)...
İmamoğlu trial adjourned after courtroom dispute; journalists protest access restrictions
The trial of İstanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu and 406 other defendants was adjourned on Monday shortly after it began following a courtroom dispute over...
European Parliament resolution underscores lack of domestic legal remedies in Turkey
Forty-seven Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) and 14 press freedom and free expression organizations led by the International Press Institute (IPI) and Green...
Turkey’s broadcast regulator fines TV channel for criticism of woman who was rude to...
Turkey’s broadcasting watchdog, the Radio and Television Supreme Council (RTÜK), has imposed a fine on pro-opposition broadcaster Halk TV over a commentator who criticized...
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