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In January 1961, a law came into effect defining the rights of journalists in Turkey. Though President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says the media are on the right track in Turkey, his government has clamped down ...
caricature by Stefan SImonowitz, Amnesty International’s media manager for Europe and Turkey PHOTO: Euronews Hundreds of people have been detained in Turkey for commenting or reporting on Turkey’s recent military offensive in northeast Syria and ...
By The Associated Press ANKARA, Turkey – Turkey’s state-run news agency says lawyers for President Recep Tayyip Erdogan have filed a criminal complaint against French magazine Le Point journalists for allegedly insulting him. Anadolu Agency said ...
Eight Kurdish singers were detained on Friday by Turkish gendarmes on allegations of spreading terrorist propaganda in the Viranşehir district of Urfa province by singing in Kurdish at weddings, the Mezapotamya news website reported. Among ...
A total of 26,115 people were investigated on allegations of insulting Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan throughout the year of 2018, indicating a 30 percent increase from the previous year, according to the Birgün daily. ...
Veli Saçılık Veli Saçılık, a purged human rights defender, was allegedly subjected to excessive force on Thursday when he was taken into custody during a protest in Ankara against the Turkish government’s removal from office ...
Turkish rappers on Friday released two new songs criticizing the Turkish government and urging the public, especially young people, to raise their voices against political and social injustice as well as human and animal rights ...
Turkey’s Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu has announced that a total of 20,474 people in Turkey have been investigated due to their messages on social media, the Gazete Duvar news website reported on Friday. The minister’s ...
ANKARA: Turkey’s highest court rejected appeals on Friday from two prominent journalists jailed over links to the failed coup in 2016, state media reported. The Constitutional Court said the rights of Nazli Ilicak, 74, and ...
“Bad economic management, among others, brought him [Erdoğan] to power … It may remove him power, too.” — International banker who asked not to be named. Ironically, the man who could recharge the machine called ...