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HRW report: Turkey’s silencing of media, assaults on press freedom shield state from scrutiny

A report by US-based rights group Human Rights Watch (HRW) released on Thursday said that Turkey’s government has all but silenced independent media in...

Int’l cartoonist organizations demand release of Turkish colleague

Leading cartoonist organizations from around the world called on Turkey, in a joint statement, to release Musa Kart, a well-known Turkish cartoonist who was...

Economist: Acrimonious breakup between Turkey, EU a matter of time

The London-based Economist weekly news magazine said in an article on Saturday that an acrimonious breakup between Turkey and the EU appears to be...

Turkish journalists Dündar, Gül receive PEN’s Hermann Kesten Award

The German office of PEN International, a worldwide association of writers, has given the Hermann Kesten Award to former Editor-in-Chief of the Cumhuriyet daily Can Dündar...

Freedom House : Turkey among ‘Not Free’ countries in Internet freedom

Turkey has fallen into the “not free” category of countries ranked by Freedom House in its "Freedom on the Net 2016" report, with the...

The Economist: Turkey’s more relevant models are Kazakhstan, Russia

The London-based Economist weekly news magazine described the executive presidential model that Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan wants to switch to as more similar...

RSF calls on Germany to grant visas, residence, work permits to Turkish journalists

Christian Mihr, director of Reporters Without Borders Germany, has called on the German government to grant visas and residence permits to Turkish journalists who...

Amnesty International launches campaign for action against media crackdown in Turkey

The London-based human rights organization Amnesty International has launched a campaign for urgent action against the Turkish government’s increasing control over media outlets following...

The Economist: Goodbye, ‘Republic’

The editorial board of the London-based Economist magazine said in a piece on Saturday that the recent crackdown on Turkey's secularist Cumhuriyet daily is...

Released Cumhuriyet columnist: I have never seen such immoral accusations

Aydın Engin, a columnist for the Cumhuriyet daily who was released on Friday evening after spending four days in police custody, said he has...

[OPINION] Erdoğan’s spies plan abductions, murders of critics abroad

By Abdullah Bozkurt Given the track record of notorious Turkey’s National Intelligence Organization (MİT), which contracted out the murder of three Kurdish women in the...

Last few critical dailies in Turkey will be shut down one by one, dissident journalists say

Barış İnce, editorial consultant for the Birgün daily, has said the few remaining media outlets that are critical of the government will be shut...

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