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Turkey’s state-run tea producer had to destroy tons of tea due to poor management: report

The General Directorate of Tea Enterprises (ÇAYKUR), Turkey’s state-owned tea producer which has lost billions of lira after its transfer to Wealth Fund control...

Famous Kurdish poet released from jail, says arrest was unlawful

Famous Kurdish poet, writer and journalist Yılmaz Odabaşı, who was arrested in İstanbul on Wednesday, was released on Thursday and said his arrest was...

Turkish newspaper claims pro-gov’t company offered advertising in exchange for self-censorship

Turkey’s conservative Milli Gazete daily has claimed that a full-page ad from discount supermarket chain BİM that was scheduled to be published on Thursday...

The year 2020 in review: Women’s Rights in Turkey

The year 2020 has witnessed an increase in rights violations against women in Turkey, with rising numbers of femicide cases amid discussions of withdrawing...

Journalists face 158 years in prison over book about Erdoğan’s obstruction of justice

Turkish journalists Barış Terkoğlu and Barış Pehlivan, who co-authored a book investigating alleged obstruction of justice by Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in high-profile...

Online censorship is rampant in Turkey

Reports about the former employee of a Turkish embassy caught with heroin in his vehicle, about allegations of international money laundering, about gender-based violence…...

Erdoğan’s censorship now targeting media outlets in Europe

Cevheri Güven Bold Medya, a YouTube channel run by the German-based International Journalists Association eV (IJA), was shut down due to efforts exerted by the...

Female journalists in Turkey face discrimination and harassment at work, says media association

Female journalists in Turkey face problems at work, ranging from unequal pay to sexual harassment, most frequently seen in local media outlets, the Stockholm...

Police officer convicted of breaking protestor’s arm walks free after receiving suspended sentence

Police officer E.T., who broke the arm of protestor Zeynal Danacı in Ankara in 2017, was convicted of excessive use of force and sentenced...

Turkey tops the list for number of European Court of Human Rights judgments finding violations of freedom of expression

Turkey tops the list of 47 Council of Europe (CoE) member states that received the most judgments from the European Court of Human Rights...

Freedom of the press sustained further blows in Turkey in 2020, report reveals

A press freedom report drafted by the Turkish Journalists’ Association (TGC) for the year 2020 shows that there has been further regression in freedom...

OHAL commission has rejected 99,140 applications out of 126,630 to date

A commission set up by the Turkish government to look into complaints from individuals who were adversely affected by government decrees during a state...

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