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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...

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...

Erdoğan breaks YouTube’s resistance

A collective resistance put up by social media platforms against Turkey’s new law entailing heavy online censorship has been broken as a statement by...

Broadcasting watchdog RTÜK contributes to increasing censorship in Turkey: HRW

Turkey’s broadcasting watchdog, the Radio and Television Supreme Council (RTÜK), is contributing to increasing censorship in the country by imposing punitive and disproportionate sanctions...

Book for young people banned in Turkey for promoting ‘immorality’

Turkish authorities have banned a book by the famous Austrian writer Christine Nöstlinger on the grounds that it promotes immorality, the Birgün daily reported. The...

Erdoğan ordered state-run agency to keep silent on Albayrak’s resignation, journalist claims

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan prevented the country’s state-run Anadolu news agency from covering news of the resignation of Berat Albayrak, who is also...

How did penguins become the symbol of the media blackout in Turkey?

The abrupt resignation of the finance minister of a country who is also the son-in-law of that nation's president would be breaking news in...

Turkish ruling party’s social media bill presages ‘new dark era’ of censorship, say critics: report

A proposed law that Turkey says will make social media companies more accountable to local regulations will rather increase censorship and accelerate a trend...

AKP executive implies LGBTI censorship in Turkish Netflix series

Mahir Ünal, deputy chairman of Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP), said in an interview that the initial version of a Turkish show...

Turkey’s broadcasting watchdog bans Can Dündar’s news website again

The Özgürüz news website, run by prominent Turkish journalist Can Dündar, who has been living in self-imposed exile for a while now, was cut...

Jailed Kurdish politician’s letter to family censored by prison management

A letter sent by jailed Kurdish politician Selahattin Demirtaş to his family was censored by the prison management, according to his wife. “Face to face...

Turkey’s RTÜK fines broadcasters critical of gov’t $1.6 million in year and a half

Turkey’s Radio and Television Supreme Council (RTÜK) over the last year and a half has imposed TL 11 million ($ 1.6 million) in fines on TV...

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