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Turkey’s arrested journalists ask for indictment, trial without detention

A number of Turkish journalists, most of whom were jailed in the wake of a failed coup attempt on July 15, have asked for...

Turkish court rules for release of pro-Kurdish DİHA reporter Şermin Soydan

The 2nd High Criminal Court of Turkey's southeastern Hakkari province ordered the release pending trial of pro-Kurdish Dicle news agency (DİHA) reporter Şemin Soydan...

Former Özgür Gündem columnist Şaban İba detained in Turkey

Former columnist of the now-closed pro-Kurdish Özgür Gündem daily, Şaban İba, was detained by gendarmes in the Edremit district of Balıkesir after a raid...

Turkish PM to EP president: Criticisms on Turkey are baseless, biased

In a phone conversation with European Parliament President Martin Schulz on Saturday amid an increasing crackdown on media and the opposition, Prime Minister Binali...

[UPDATE] Cumhuriyet Editor-in-Chief Sabuncu and 8 others from daily arrested

Nine journalists and executives from the Cumhuriyet daily, including its Editor-in-Chief Murat Sabuncu, were arrested by the İstanbul 9th Penal Court of Peace on...

Int’l coalition condemns Cumhuriyet arrests, Kurdish media closures in letter to Erdoğan

A coalition of 14 leading international press freedom and freedom of expression organizations, in a letter sent today to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan...

HRW warns of deepening crackdown in Turkey

The detention of journalists from independent newspaper Cumhuriyet, the closure of the remaining Kurdish media outlets in the country and the jailing of two...

Turkey’s pro-gov’t columnists, media target former Zaman journalists

Fatih Tezcan, a pro-government journalist with 435,000 followers on Twitter, has targeted Hasan Cücük, a former Zaman daily reporter in Copenhagen, and threatened to...

Turkey arrests 4 for attending local protests against gov’t media crackdown in 2014

An Edirne judge on Tuesday ruled for the arrest of four people who attended local protests against the detention of journalists Ekrem Dumanlı and...

Police insult former Zaman columnist for not supporting President Erdoğan

  A police officer told former Zaman daily columnist Ali Bulaç, who has been in Silivri Prison since July 28 on coup charges, that he...

Turkish prosecutor demands arrest of former Zaman, STV journalists on coup charges

A prosecutor with the İstanbul Public Prosecutor's Office has demanded arrest warrants for former Today's Zaman Editor-in-Chief Bülent Keneş, Zaman daily columnist Kerim Balcı...

Turkish PM accuses int’l media of launching ‘black propaganda’ against Turkey

Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım has accused international media organizations of launching 'black propaganda' against Turkey following a failed coup attempt on July 15. Speaking...

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