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Journalists face 158 years in prison over book about ErdoÄŸan’s obstruction of justice

Turkish journalists Barış Terkoğlu and Barış Pehlivan, who co-authored a book investigating alleged obstruction of justice by Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in high-profile...

Online censorship is rampant in Turkey

Reports about the former employee of a Turkish embassy caught with heroin in his vehicle, about allegations of international money laundering, about gender-based violence…...

Erdoğan’s censorship now targeting media outlets in Europe

Cevheri Güven Bold Medya, a YouTube channel run by the German-based International Journalists Association eV (IJA), was shut down due to efforts exerted by the...

Female journalists in Turkey face discrimination and harassment at work, says media association

Female journalists in Turkey face problems at work, ranging from unequal pay to sexual harassment, most frequently seen in local media outlets, the Stockholm...

Police officer convicted of breaking protestor’s arm walks free after receiving suspended sentence

Police officer E.T., who broke the arm of protestor Zeynal Danacı in Ankara in 2017, was convicted of excessive use of force and sentenced...

Turkey tops the list for number of European Court of Human Rights judgments finding violations of freedom of expression

Turkey tops the list of 47 Council of Europe (CoE) member states that received the most judgments from the European Court of Human Rights...

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...

Turkish court hands down life sentences to dozens of officers in 2016 coup trial

A Turkish court has handed down life sentences to 92 military officers for their alleged roles in a failed coup in Turkey on July...

OHAL commission has rejected 99,140 applications out of 126,630 to date

A commission set up by the Turkish government to look into complaints from individuals who were adversely affected by government decrees during a state...

Turkey drafts new indictment against jailed Kurdish leader

Turkish prosecutors have drafted an indictment for 108 people, including jailed Kurdish politician Selahattin Demirtaş, in connection to street protests in the country’s Southeast...

US State Department denies forming joint group with Turkey to discuss S-400 sanctions

The US State Department has denied reports suggesting that the US and Turkey are considering the establishment of a joint working group to discuss...

Turkey will drag out DemirtaÅŸ case, former judge says

Cevheri Güven  Talip Aydın, former head of department for human rights at the Turkish Ministry of Justice, said Turkey plans to drag out for years...

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