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The Number Of Jailed Journalists In Turkey Reaches To 200
Stockholm Center for Freedom, an advocacy group that monitors rights violations in Turkey, has updated its mammoth list of jailed journalists in Turkey which...
Turkish court rejects request for acquittal in journalists’ trial over İmamoğlu protest coverage
A Turkish court on Friday rejected a request for immediate acquittal in the trial of eight journalists prosecuted for covering protests that erupted after...
Turkey ranked third in press freedom violations among EU candidates as crackdown on press...
Turkey recorded the third-highest number of press freedom violations among European Union candidate countries in 2024, with journalists facing mass arrests, censorship and intimidation,...
Turkey launches investigation into German journalist over social media accounts
Ankara prosecutors have opened an investigation into German journalist of Turkish descent Süheyla Kaplan, over posts on her social media accounts, Deutsche Welle Turkish...
Slain Saudi journalist Khashoggi’s Turkish fiancée: He thought Turkey was a safe country
Jamal Khashoggi’s Turkish fiancée, Hatice Cengiz, said in an interview broadcast live on Habertürk on Thursday that the slain Saudi journalist was experiencing “great...
Journalist Akgül jailed over reports on Turkey’s military operations in Nusaybin
Uğur Akgül, a former reporter for the now-closed pro-Kurdish Dicle news agency (DİHA), was sent on Wednesday to Mersin Prison to serve out a...
Staff of Turkey’s state-run TRT briefly detained in Greece
Staff members of Turkey's public TV broadcaster TRT were briefly detained in the Greek city of Alexandroupolis late Saturday.
According to a report by Turkey's...
Panel at UN Human Rights Council calls on Turkish gov’t to release jailed journalists
International human rights and press freedom organizations called on the Turkish government to immediately release imprisoned journalists during the 38th session of the UN...
Turkey’s Erdoğan argues with journalism student over press freedom question
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Thursday argued with a student of journalism who asked him a question about the state of freedom of...
Last defence of jailed journalist Ünal: Remember me as the man advocating a Quran...
Mustafa Ünal (50), a jailed veteran journalist and former Ankara bureau chief for the now-shuttered Zaman daily, stated in his last defence before the court,...
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