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Turkey’s longest-jailed journalist likens 18-year proceedings to gov’t theatre

Hatice Duman, the former owner and news editor of the socialist Atılım (Leap) weekly who has been behind bars since 2003, has said her...

24 journalists detained, 4 arrested in Turkey in first quarter of 2021: report

Turkey arrested four members of the press in addition to detaining 24 others in the first three months of 2021, with COVID-19 adding to...

Jailed journalist Ahmet Böken contracts COVID-19 in prison

Ali Ahmet Böken, 49, a veteran Turkish journalist and prominent broadcaster who has been in prison over alleged links to the Gülen movement since...

JinNews faces 24th access ban since its establishment in 2017

The Information Technologies and Communication Authority (BTK) has banned access to JinNews, the only all-female news agency in Turkey, the 24th such ban imposed on...

Turkish journalist faces 18 years for covering press statement release

Ruşen Takva, a freelance journalist based in Turkey’s eastern province of Van, has been indicted by a prosecutor for attending the release of a...

Journalist goes on trial on terror charges for posting Nevruz photo

The first hearing in the trial of Turkish journalist Melis Alphan, who faces a prison sentence of up to seven-and-a-half years on terror charges...

Journalist sentenced to prison on terrorism charges in first hearing of trial

A journalist was sentenced to 15 months in prison on charges of disseminating terrorist propaganda in the first hearing of her trial at a...

Turkish journalist briefly detained over cartoon tweet

A columnist for a top Turkish opposition daily was briefly detained on Wednesday over a tweet of a cartoon depicting a janitor appearing to...

Top court finds no rights violation for journalist in 5-year pretrial detention

Turkey’s Constitutional Court has found no rights violation in the case of Ercan Gün, a former news editor at FOX TV who was arrested...

Colleagues, MPs demand freedom for jailed journalist Baransu in short documentary

Opposition politicians and journalists are seen defending the rights of journalist Mehmet Baransu, who has been behind bars since March 2015 due to his...

One in every four journalists in Turkey suffered physical violence in 2020: report

One out of every four journalists was subjected to physical violence and half of them received threats in 2020, a report recently released by...

2 Turkish journalists face 31 years on charges of revealing state secrets

A Turkish prosecutor is seeking a prison sentence of up to 31 years, six months for both Müyesser Yıldız, the Ankara news editor for...

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