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Turkey revokes security detail assigned to prominent opposition figure
Turkey
November 12, 2019
Turkey revokes security detail assigned to prominent opposition figure
The Turkish government has revoked a protective detail it previously assigned to Canan Kaftancıoğlu, a prominent member of the main…
CPJ joins call to UN rights council for end to press crackdown in Turkey
Media Freedom
September 21, 2019
CPJ joins call to UN rights council for end to press crackdown in Turkey
The Committee to Protect Journalists joined 12 other press freedom and freedom of expression organizations calling on the member states…
[UPDATE] 5 Cumhuriyet journalists released from prison after top court ruling
Turkey
September 14, 2019
[UPDATE] 5 Cumhuriyet journalists released from prison after top court ruling
Five journalists from the Cumhuriyet daily who have been in prison since April were released on Thursday evening after Turkey’s…
Turkey had censored more than 245,000 websites, URLs as of end-2018: report
Turkey
July 3, 2019
Turkey had censored more than 245,000 websites, URLs as of end-2018: report
As of the end of 2018, Turkish authorities had banned access to a total of 245,825 websites and URLs, with…
Turkey Crackdown Chronicle: Week of June 16, 2019
Media Freedom
June 21, 2019
Turkey Crackdown Chronicle: Week of June 16, 2019
Yavuz Selim Demirağ, a columnist for the nationalist daily Yeni Çağ who was attacked by a group of men who…
Turkish court rejects opposition newspaper staff appeal against terror charges
Turkey
April 28, 2019
Turkish court rejects opposition newspaper staff appeal against terror charges
Former staff of the mass-circulation Cumhuriyet daily, including journalists and executives, started going back to prison on Thursday, after their…
Court of appeal upholds sentences given to opposition journalists and staff from Cumhuriyet daily
Media Freedom
February 20, 2019
Court of appeal upholds sentences given to opposition journalists and staff from Cumhuriyet daily
Prison sentences that were handed down to staff members of the critical Cumhuriyet daily last year were upheld by a…
2 Sözcü daily columnists indicted on Gülen charges
Media Freedom
December 11, 2018
2 Sözcü daily columnists indicted on Gülen charges
Two columnists from the nationalist, secularist Sözcü newspaper have been indicted on allegations of aiding the faith-based Gülen movement, which…
A major victory for freedom of the press in Turkey: Ahmet Sik is released
Media Freedom
March 10, 2018
A major victory for freedom of the press in Turkey: Ahmet Sik is released
Turkey’s court ruled on Friday that two journalists should be released for the duration of their trial for subversion, a…
Journalists in State of Emergency – 122
Editor's Choice
February 23, 2018
Journalists in State of Emergency – 122
Çetin Kurşun, a reporter for the shuttered Kurdish-language newspaper Azadiya Welat, was imprisoned pending trial on February 21, 2018, on the charge…