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Doğan says it was his own decision to sell media group to Demirören

One day after news broke about the sale of Turkey’s largest media group, the Doğan Media Group, to the Demirören Group, businessman and honorary...

OSCE’s Désir urges Turkey to revisit verdicts in Alpay, Altan cases

“The decision of the European Court of Human Rights shows clearly that the rights to liberty and security, as well as to freedom of expression of two...

UN: Approximately 300 journalists arrested, detained in Turkey in 2017

The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) on Tuesday stated that it had received reports on the arrest and...

Veteran Turkish journalist Şahin Alpay released pending trial

Şahin Alpay, a veteran journalist and columnist for the now-closed Zaman and Today’s Zaman dailies, was released pending trial on Friday after Turkey’s Constitutional...

Turkey bans access to critical Ahval news website

The Turkish Telecommunications Authority (BTK) on Wednesday imposed an access ban on the critical news website ahvalnews.com as the Turkish government’s crackdown on the...

Turkish journalist gets 9 years based on anonymous letter alleging terrorism

Vahit Yazgan, the former bureau chief of the shuttered Zaman daily in Turkey’s western province of İzmir, was sentenced to eight years, nine months...

OSCE urges Turkey not to adopt new Internet bill

OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media Harlem Désir on Tuesday shared a legal review with Turkish authorities on elements of a bill that,...

OSCE, UN representatives: Life sentences for Turkish journalists an attack on freedom of expression

Today’s court decision to imprison journalists for life constitutes an unparalleled level of suppression of dissenting voices in Turkey, Harlem Désir, OSCE representative on...

Judge tells prominent journalist to stop Erdoğan criticism at coup trial

A judge hearing the trial of seven journalists including Nazlı Ilıcak and the Altan brothers, who are being tried on coup charges, has intervened...

OSCE’s Désir calls on Turkey to release detained journalists

Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) Representative on Freedom of the Media Harlem Désir on Wednesday called on Turkish authorities to drop...

İstanbul court again refuses to release journalist Altan

İstanbul’s 26th High Criminal Court on Friday rejected a demand for release filed by lawyers representing journalist Mehmet Altan despite a decision by Turkey’s...

2 more journalists arrested on terror charges by Turkish court

Veli Büyükşahin and Veli Haydar Güleç, the two journalists from the now-defunct TV 10 television channel, were arrested and put in pretrial detention on Thursday. TV10 is...

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