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IFJ, EFJ condemn gov’t crackdown on Cumhuriyet daily

In a written statement issued on Monday, the International and European Federations of Journalists (IFJ/EFJ) condemned a new wave of media repression by Turkish...

Police detain 7 students protesting detention of Cumhuriyet journalists

Police have detained seven students who were part of a crowd that gathered in front of the Cumhuriyet daily’s İstanbul headquarters to protest the...

Erdoğan knew of coup attempt, prerecorded ‘address to nation,’ journalist claims

Turkish journalist Levent Gültekin said during an interview last week that President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan had information about a planned coup attempt prior to...

Man who shot CHP deputy chairman: I told him to speak politely about Erdoğan

The man who attacked Republican People’s Party (CHP) Deputy Chairman Bülent Tezcan in Aydın on Saturday said in his testimony that he warned the...

3 soldiers die, 1 wounded in PKK attack

Three soldiers died and one was wounded on Tuesday in a terrorist Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) attack in Turkey’s eastern Hakkari province. Four PKK militants...

IPI board demands release of Kadri Gürsel, Cumhuriyet journalists

The International Press Institute (IPI)’s executive board has condemned "in the strongest possible terms" Turkish authorities’ move to silence what it called the country’s...

Government says crackdown does not target columnists, but foundation

Following the detention of Cumhuriyet columnists early on Monday, ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) government spokesperson Numan Kurtulmuş stated that the investigation does...

Opposition parties condemn government crackdown on Cumhuriyet daily

The three opposition parties in Parliament -- the main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP), the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) and the Nationalist Movement...

[UPDATE] Turkey cracks down on critical Cumhuriyet daily, detains 12 journalists

Amid widespread concerns over deteriorating freedom of the press in Turkey, Turkey on Monday detained 12 journalists from the secularist and critical Cumhuriyet daily...

Cumhuriyet readers protest detention of journalists in front of daily’s building

Thousands of readers of the Cumhuriyet daily gathered in front of the paper’s headquarters in İstanbul's Şişli district on Monday to stand behind their...

EP’s Schulz says another red line crossed with detention of Cumhuriyet journalists

Martin Schulz, the president of the European Parliament (EP), harshly criticized the detention of a number of Cumhuriyet daily journalists, including the paper’s editor-in-chief,...

IPI board member, journalist Gürsel detained in İstanbul

One of the most highly acclaimed journalists in Turkey, Kadri Gürsel, who is a board member of International Press Institute, was detained in İstanbul...

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