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OSCE’s Désir calls on Turkey to release all journalists

Harlem Désir, representative on freedom of the media for the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), has called on Turkey to release...

Pro-Erdoğan columnist: More journalists to face investigation in Turkey

Journalist Cem Küçük, a staunch supporter of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, said on Monday that new operations targeting journalists were underway. Küçük wrote in...

[OPINION] CPJ downplays the number of jailed journalists in Turkey

Abdullah Bozkurt Although there are varying figures on the number of jailed journalists and media workers in Turkey from different advocacy groups, one thing that...

RSF calls on EU leaders to insist on press freedom at summit with Turkey

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has written a letter to European Union leaders in advance of an EU-Turkey summit in Varna, Bulgaria, on March 26...

CPJ calls on EU officials to raise press freedom with Erdoğan

In a letter to the European Union's top officials, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) on Thursday asked the union to call for the...

OSCE’s Désir urges Turkey to revisit verdicts in Alpay, Altan cases

“The decision of the European Court of Human Rights shows clearly that the rights to liberty and security, as well as to freedom of expression of two...

UN: Approximately 300 journalists arrested, detained in Turkey in 2017

The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) on Tuesday stated that it had received reports on the arrest and...

The notes of a journalist deprived of his freedom

Art director of the now-closed Zaman daily, Fevzi Yazıcı, was convicted and sentenced to aggravated life in prison in February along with five other...

As trial nears end, journalists say they are being punished for doing their job

The trial of 29 journalists charged with membership in a terrorist organization resumed in İstanbul on Wednesday, with the journalists delivering their final defense...

Correspondent decries double standards of int’l press, rights bodies for jailed Turkish journalists

Ahead of the second anniversary of the seizure of the Zaman Media Group by a government led by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, the...

Turkish journalist gets 9 years based on anonymous letter alleging terrorism

Vahit Yazgan, the former bureau chief of the shuttered Zaman daily in Turkey’s western province of İzmir, was sentenced to eight years, nine months...

4 journalists receive sentences of up to 9 years in prison

An Adana court has handed down prison sentences varying from seven years, six months to nine years to four journalists on charges of membership in...

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