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Turkish court is retrying RSF representative on terror charges

Turkey on Wednesday began the retrial of the country's Reporters Without Borders (RSF) representative and two other human rights defenders on terror charges that...

Turkey sentenced 23 journalists to over 100 years in prison in 2020: report

Turkish courts handed down sentences totaling 103 years to 23 journalists in 2020, according to the “BİA Media Monitoring Report 2020,” released by the...

Journalist faces 2 years in prison on charges of insulting Turkish Parliament

Anti-government journalist Yılmaz Özdil from the Sözcü daily has been indicted on charges of insulting the Turkish Parliament because he used lowercase letters in...

Freedom of the press sustained further blows in Turkey in 2020, report reveals

A press freedom report drafted by the Turkish Journalists’ Association (TGC) for the year 2020 shows that there has been further regression in freedom...

Longtime gov’t critic Sözcü newspaper slapped with $1.8 million tax fine for 2018

Turkish opposition newspaper Sözcü was levied a tax fine of TL 14.5 million ($1.8 million) for the year 2018 over what the paper on...

Jailed journalist reveals injustices in his prosecution in letter to colleague

Former economy editor Zafer Özcan, who was arrested last year on terror-related charges, revealed the injustices he faced during his prosecution in a letter...

Compromised independence of Turkey’s institutions is choking press freedom: IPI report

Turkey’s press freedom crisis is worsening amid the lack of independence of regulatory institutions as public criticism of topics sensitive to the Justice and...

Journalist Baransu had ‘terror motives’ in publishing state documents, court says

A Mersin court that handed down a prison sentence of 19 years, six months to jailed investigative journalist Mehmet Baransu on three separate charges...

Retrial of 8 journalists begins after sentences overturned by high court

Eight journalists appeared in an İstanbul criminal court on Wednesday in the first hearing of their retrial, made possible when the country’s top court...

[UPDATE] Turkey cancels press cards of journalists from leftist Evrensel, Birgün newspapers

The press credentials of journalists working for the leftist Evrensel and Birgün newspapers have been cancelled for no reason that could be determined, according...

International groups condemn attacks on 2 Turkish journalists

The International Press Institute along with 18 other press freedom and freedom of expression organizations, including PEN International and several PEN centers, on Thursday...

3 Turkish journalists detained overnight in İstanbul

Turkish police on Saturday night detained journalists Zeynep Kuray, İrfan Tunççelik and Canan Coşkun, the Diken news website reported. Coşkun, who works for Mediascope TV, spent the night...

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