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Court rules to keep Zaman journalist Ünal in jail

A high criminal court in the western Turkish province of Uşak has refused to release Ali Ünal, a theologian and former columnist for the...

Judge blocks access to tweets supporting journalist’s right to freedom of expression

A judge for the İstanbul 3rd Penal Court of Peace on Tuesday ruled to block Internet access to the tweets of Turkey’s Journalists Union (TGS)...

[UPDATE] DİHA journalist Oruç released today, detained again

Şerife Oruç, a journalist for the now-closed Dicle News Agency (DİHA), was detained on Monday again after the Batman 2nd High Criminal Court ruled...

Journalist sent to prison after employer fails to pay fine for offensive column

Turkish journalist Hakan Gülseven was arrested on Tuesday in Balıkesir province after the media outlet he was working for, the Yurt daily, failed to...

Turkey’s agriculture minister smacks journalist over a question

Turkish Agriculture Minister Ahmet Eşref Fakıbaba slapped a journalist who asked a question about his security detail in Şanlıurfa province, Aktifhaber reported on Monday. A...

Editor briefly detained due to article titled ‘We can stop the dictatorship’

Ali Ergin Demirhan, an editor at the critical sendika.org news website, was briefly detained on Monday due to an article on the site in...

State of emergency gives Turkish police license to harass, journalist claims

"Is the state of emergency in place to give police the right to threaten people wearing clothes they don’t like?" journalist İrem Afşin complained...

Another journalist sentenced to 7.5 years on terror charges

The Ankara 26th High Criminal Court on Monday handed down a seven year, six month sentence to journalist Kazım Canlan after he was convicted...

[OPINION] Turkey’s intelligence agency tapped journalist as asset in CNN Turkish affiliate

OPINION | ABDULLAH BOZKURT The use of Turkish journalists as assets and media outlets as cover has long been a policy of Turkey’s National Intelligence...

Yet another journalist put behind bars in Turkey

Managing editor of the now-closed Özgür Gündem daily, Reyhan Çapan, was put in prison on Friday to serve out a 15-month sentence handed down...

Jailed journalist Ünal: My screams for justice have faded away in a bottomless pit

Mustafa Ünal (50), a jailed veteran journalist and former Ankara bureau chief for the shuttered Zaman daily, has urged the judges in his trial...

Three-year jail sentence sought for journalist Baysal due to tweets on Afrin

A prosecutor is seeking a three-year jail sentence for journalist Nurcan Baysal due to her tweets critical of an ongoing Turkish military operation in...

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