Die Welt’s Turkey reporter Deniz Yücel

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Bild editor turns down TRT’s interview request over imprisonment of journalists in Turkey

March 3, 2017

Julian Röpcke, a political editor for the German Bild daily, tweeted on Thursday that he turned down an interview request by Turkey’s state-run TRT...

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Pro-gov’t Star daily says jailed Die Welt reporter ‘not a journalist, but a PKK hitman’

March 3, 2017

The front page of the pro-government Star daily on Thursday bore a headline that targeted jailed Die Welt reporter Deniz Yücel, saying he is...

Headline

Jailed journalist Öğreten gets married in prison

March 2, 2017

Diken news website editor Tunca Öğreten, who was arrested on Jan. 17 for publishing stories on the leaked emails of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s...

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Turkey blocks German Bild website after criticism of Deniz Yücel’s arrest

March 1, 2017

Access to the German daily Bild’s website has been blocked by the Turkish government, several media outlets reported on Wednesday. The decision came after Bild...

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EC says arrest of journalists in Turkey has grave impact on freedom of expression

February 28, 2017

As criticism mounts in Germany over the Monday arrest of Die Welt’s Turkey correspondent Deniz Yücel on charges of disseminating the propaganda of a...

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Merkel reacts to Die Welt reporter’s arrest: Disproportionate

February 28, 2017

German Chancellor Angela Merkel has reacted to a Turkish court decision to arrest German daily Die Welt’s Turkey reporter Deniz Yücel for "disseminating the...

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