In an apparant move to calm critics of an operation targeting the opposition Cumhuriyet newspaper in Turkey earlier this week, Justice Minister Bekir Bozdağ...
A coalition of 14 leading international press freedom and freedom of expression organizations, in a letter sent today to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan...
Leader of the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) Devlet Bahçeli has expressed his support for an operation targeting the Cumhuriyet daily, which resulted in the...
Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım has lashed out at European Parliament (EP) President Martin Schulz, who harshly criticized the detention of a number of...
The detention of journalists from independent newspaper Cumhuriyet, the closure of the remaining Kurdish media outlets in the country and the jailing of two...
As the Turkish government tightens its grip on the remaining few independent media outlets in the country, State Department Spokesperson John Kirby expressed concern...
Despite its overall low profile in the face of increasing pressure in the country, the Turkish Industrialists and Businessmen's Association (TÜSİAD) issued a statement...
Following the detention of Cumhuriyet columnists early on Monday, ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) government spokesperson Numan Kurtulmuş stated that the investigation does...
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...
Council of Europe (CoE) Secretary-General Thorbjørn Jagland has released a statement expressing his concerns about the state of emergency and freedom of expression in...
Amid widespread concerns over deteriorating freedom of the press in Turkey, Turkey on Monday detained 12 journalists from the secularist and critical Cumhuriyet daily...
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...
