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Turkey jails 3 more journalists on terrorism charges

Despite calls from international media organizations to release jailed journalists in Turkey, three more Turkish journalists have been arrested and jailed on charges of...

Amnesty projects names of jailed journalists on Turkish Embassy building

Amnesty International on Tuesday night projected the names of imprisoned Turkish journalists onto the facade of the Turkish Embassy in The Hague. The protest came...

EP members write letters of solidarity to Turkey’s jailed journalists

Members of the European Parliament have begun a campaign of support for imprisoned Turkish journalists upon the initiative of leading journalism organization Reporters Without...

Gov’t suspends judges who released journalists

Turkey’s Supreme Board of Judges and Prosecutors (HSYK) has suspended the three judges who on Friday released 21 journalists after eight months of pre-trial...

Turkish government detains journalist again 2 days after release

Former Zaman journalist Tuncer Çetinkaya has been taken into custody again two days after he was released from an-eight-month-long imprisonment. Zaman’s former local news representative...

[UPDATE] 6 journalists released after lengthy pre-trial detention taken into custody again

Six of 21 journalists who had been in pre-trial detention for eight months and were released pending trial on Friday were detained again later...

Amnesty calls on Turkey to end media crackdown, release jailed journalists

Human rights advocacy group Amnesty International has called on Turkish authorities to put an end to an ongoing media crackdown in the country and...

Erdoğan calls Turkey’s jailed journalists ‘thieves, child abusers, terrorists’

At a time when Turkey ranks first on a list of countries with the highest number of jailed journalists, Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan...

Court accepts indictment accusing 29 journalists of terrorist activity

An indictment of 29 journalists, 25 of whom are jailed, was accepted on Monday by the İstanbul 25th High Criminal Court, seeking up to...

Nobel committee chairman says Turkey world’s largest jailer of intellectuals

Veteran Swedish writer and Chairman of the Nobel Committee for Literature Per Wästberg said Turkey has become the largest jailer of intellectuals and journalists...

Number of journalists in Turkish prisons ‘cannot be determined,’ justice minister says

It is not possible to “determine” the number of journalists in Turkish prisons, said Turkey’s justice minister in response to a parliamentary question on...

Journalist Baransu denied food on day of court hearing

Former Taraf daily journalist Mehmet Baransu, who was imprisoned in March 2015 after he revealed an alleged government plan to “eliminate the Gülen movement”...

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