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“Turkey Purge” watch group keeps finger on crackdown pulse

The hashtag #TurkeyPurge continues to trend internationally five months after the attempted coup in Turkey. One watch group with an online presence actually calls...

RSF 2016 Round-Up : Number of journalists detained worldwide continues to rise

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) released today its annual worldwide round-up of journalists who are detained, held hostage or missing. The numbers are rising dramatically. A...

A record number of journalists are in jail, CPJ census finds

Turkey holds at least 81 journalists, fueling global high of 259. New York, December 13, 2016--Turkey's unprecedented crackdown on media brought the total number of...

Macedonia, detention and censorship

Censorship in Macedonia: the controversial case of Zoran Bozinovski, a journalist charged with criminal conspiracy, espionage and extortion, arrested in April 2016 and still...

Turkey: international coalition slams Cumhuriyet arrests, media closures

On October 2, the European and International Federations of Journalists (EFJ and IFJ) joined a coalition of international media freedom organisations led by the International...

New wave of arrests targeting daily Cumhuriyet in Turkey

The European and International Federations of Journalists (EFJ/IFJ) today condemned the new wave of media repression by Turkish authorities following the detention of Murat Sabuncu, editor-in-chief...

Turkey closes 15 media outlets, raids newspaper office, detains at least 12

New York, October 31, 2016 - The Turkish government should immediately reverse an emergency decree closing at least 15 news agencies, newspapers, and magazines...

Turkey: Operation on Cumhuriyet Daily, 16 Taken into Custody

Police has raided the houses of Cumhuriyet Daily Ediyor-in-Chief Murat Sabuncu, President of the Execution Board Akın Atalay and Cumuhuriyet Foundation Executive Board member...

Turkey loses any independent reporting with post-coup regulations

by Barış Altıntaş, 25/10/2016 Ninety-eight journalists have so far been arrested under Turkey’s State of Emergency declared on July 20, 2016, five days after the...

Journalists Behind Bars

Killings, imprisonments and other methods to silence journalists happens all too often, in Europe as elsewhere in the world. In this editorial, the importance...
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