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EU-Turkey Summit in Bulgaria: symbolic accreditation issued for jailed Turkish journalists

Days ahead of the EU-Turkey summit in Varna (Bulgaria), the Bulgarian section of the Association of European Journalists held a symbolic action in solidarity...

European Court issues first rulings on journalists detained in Turkey

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls for the immediate release of all journalists wrongfully imprisoned in Turkey after the European Court of Human Rights ruled...

Erdoğan’s Clutch on Free Media Tightens with Proposed Internet Regulations

In the high profile case of Cumhuriyet, Friday, March 9, offered a moment of relief in the Turkish government’s assault on free speech and...

Turkey: three journalists sentenced to life over coup attempt

Brussels, 16 February 2018 - A Turkish court jailed yesterday journalists Mehmet Altan (65), his brother Ahmet Altan (67) and Nazli Illicak (73) for life imprisonment after finding them guilty...

Erol Önderoğlu – Laureate of the Freedom of Speech Award 2018

Distinguished Turkish journalist and freedom of speech advocate is this year's laureate of the Roosevelt Freedom of Speech Award. The award for Mr. Önderoğlu is...

In Repressive Countries, Citizens Go ‘Dark’ to Share Independent News – CIMA digital report

The report 'In Repressive Countries, Citizens Go ‘Dark’ to Share Independent News', authored by Kate Musgrave and published by the Center for International Media...

Journalists in Turkey facing more and more imprisonment

November was a difficult month again for imprisoned and prosecuted journalists in Turkey. More and more professional journalists and media workers are facing imprisonment...

Very polarised news media and high-level distrust of news in Turkey

The Turkey supplementary report of the Digital News Report 2017 by Reuters Institute provides a more detailed examination of Turkish data on how people...

Expression Interrupted: New website from P24 on imprisoned journalists in Turkey

Platform for Independent Journalism (P24), working in cooperation with ARTICLE 19, has launched a new website Expression Interrupted to keep track of numbers of...

The Robert L. Long Nieman Fellowship for Turkish journalists established at Harvard University

The Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard and the New York City-based Turkish Philanthropy Funds (TPF) announced the launch of the Robert L. Long Nieman Fellowship to support...

Turkey Trials: “As an observer, the hardest thing is witnessing the lack of justice”

Turkey Programme Officer Georgia Nash of London-based human rights campaign Article 19 has been present at a lot of trials against journalists in Turkey. In...

Bulaç, Alpay Testify on 1st Hearing in Zaman Daily Trial

The first hearing in the trial of Zaman Daily, in which 31 media employees are standing trial was held yesterday (September 18). The persons...
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