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3 journalists given jail sentences on Erdoğan insult charges

A Turkish court has handed down jail sentences to three journalists on charges of insulting President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, the Mesopotamia news agency reported. The...

Exiled novelist Erdoğan says Turkey has a fascist regime like 1930s Germany

Turkish novelist Aslı Erdoğan, living in exile in Germany as she risks a life sentence on terror charges at home, thinks the writing is...

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...

Court sets April 18 as next hearing date for Önderoğlu, Fincancı, Nesin

The Istanbul 13th High Criminal Court on Tuesday rejected a request to send a case to the Constitutional Court, scheduling April 18, 2018 as...

Pro-Kurdish, leftist journalists detained in Ankara

Turkish police early Friday morning detained a number of pro-Kurdish and leftist journalists in Ankara province during raids on the journalists’ houses, the Stockholm...

CoE’s Muižnieks expresses dismay at conviction of activist Çelikkan in Turkey

Nils Muižnieks, the Council of Europe's (CoE) commissioner for human rights, has voiced disappointment over an 18-month jail sentence handed down to journalist and...

Academic, journalist given suspended sentences for showing solidarity with  Özgür Gündem

A professor and a journalist who stood trial separately for serving as “editor-in-chief on duty” for the pro-Kurdish Özgür Gündem daily were handed down...

Court issues detention warrant for journalist Nesin on terror charges

An İstanbul court has issued a detention warrant for writer and journalist Ahmet Nesin, son of the late famous Turkish novelist Aziz Nesin, on...

Turkish author receives suspended jail sentence over Kurdish daily support

Prominent Turkish author Murat Uyurkulak on Tuesday received a suspended 15-month sentence for standing in for a day as editor-in-chief of a pro-Kurdish daily...

Publisher of closed pro-Kurdish Özgür Gündem newspaper arrested

Kemal Sancılı, the publisher of the now-defunct pro-Kurdish newspaper Özgür Gündem, has been arrested on accusations of membership in a terrorist organization. Özgür Gündem, along with...

Author Aslı Erdoğan, linguist Necmiye Alpay released

Author Aslı Erdoğan and linguist Necmiye Alpay have been released from prison after appearing in court today in a trial involving the pro-Kurdish Özgür...

Detention warrant issued for exiled journalist Can Dündar

An İstanbul court has issued a detention warrant for former editor-in-chief of the Cumhuriyet daily and exiled journalist Can Dündar to compel his testimony...

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