Kurdish Journalist

A former reporter from Turkey's Dicle news agency (DİHA) has been handed down a suspended three-year sentence on conviction of terrorism due to his...

A journalist for the now-closed IMC TV has been given a prison sentence of six years, three months on terrorism charges for attending meetings...

The Şırnak 1st High Criminal Court on Tuesday handed down a 14-year prison sentence to Ziya Ataman, a Kurdish journalist suffering from chronic illnesses, on terrorism...

Nurcan Baysal, a Kurdish journalist and human rights activist, was briefly detained on Monday on accusations of membership in a terrorist organization, Turkish media reports said.Baysal was...

Mustafa Mamay, a Kurdish-Turkish journalist who has applied for asylum in Switzerland, was sentenced to 30 days in jail for attempting to enter the...

Irish human rights organization Front Line Defenders has named Kurdish journalist Nurcan Baysal its Global Laureate for Human Rights Defenders at Risk for 2018,...

Nedim Türfent, a reporter for the now defunct pro-Kurdish Dicle News Agency (DIHA), was sentenced to eight years, nine months in prison on Friday.The sentence was...

A Turkish court issued a detention warrant last May for Kurdish journalist and government shuttered Azadiya Welat news editor Rohat Aktaş, who was shot...