media freedom

One Turkish journalist was killed and 65 others were the subject of physical attacks while 39 were sent to jail in Turkey in 2022,...

An aide to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has slammed a statement from a US State Department official who criticized a recent move by...

A 72-hour deadline set by Turkey’s broadcasting watchdog, the Radio and Television Supreme Council (RTÜK), to three international news agencies to apply for online...

Turkey, once the world’s worst jailer of journalists, is now ranked sixth in the Committee to Protect Journalists 2021 prison census after releasing 20 jailed...

Turkish television station Kanal D, owned by the pro-government Demirören Media Group, has fired prime-time news editor Mustafa Aşçıoğlu for covering public statements and...

Turkey’s conservative Milli Gazete daily has claimed that a full-page ad from discount supermarket chain BİM that was scheduled to be published on Thursday...

Private Turkish television station Olay TV will close down scarcely a month after it started broadcasting because of a threat of seizure by the...

Turkish President and Justice and Development Party (AKP) leader Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has been featured in the pro-government Sabah daily's lead story 106 times...

Harlem Désir, representative on freedom of the media for the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), has made 13 statements, posted 31...

Republican People’s Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu on Saturday unveiled the party’s election manifesto, based on remedying five fundamental problems in Turkey and focusing...

The closure of the Özgürlükçü Demokrasi newspaper and the appointment of a trustee to head it is a major attack on the independence of...

A recently released quarterly report, the BIA Media Monitoring Report, has revealed that 122 journalists were in Turkish jails as of Jan.1, 2018, while...