The Şırnak 1st High Criminal Court on
Tuesday handed down a 14-year prison sentence to Ziya Ataman, a Kurdish journalist
suffering from chronic illnesses, on terrorism...
Nurcan Baysal, a
Kurdish journalist and human rights activist, was briefly detained on Monday on
accusations of membership in a terrorist organization, Turkish media reports
said.
Baysal was...
Irish human rights organization Front Line Defenders has named Kurdish journalist Nurcan Baysal its Global Laureate for Human Rights Defenders at Risk for 2018,...
Nedim Türfent, a reporter for the now defunct pro-Kurdish Dicle News Agency (DIHA), was sentenced to eight years, nine months in prison on Friday.
The sentence was...
A Turkish court issued a detention warrant last May for Kurdish journalist and government shuttered Azadiya Welat news editor Rohat Aktaş, who was shot...
