by TurkeyPurge | Apr 26, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
The Cumhuriyet daily’s chief executive officer, Akın Atalay, who was released from pretrial detention last night, said he would be ashamed to be happy while many people are still in jail, Cumhuriyet reported. “I’ll go about my business within the boundaries of the...
by TurkeyPurge | Mar 10, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
A Turkish court on Friday evening decided to release Cumhuriyet daily Editor-in-Chief Murat Sabuncu and journalist Ahmet Şık while ruling for a continuation of the imprisonment of another defendant in the same trial, Cumhuriyet CEO Akın Atalay. “The days when we will...
by TurkeyPurge | Nov 12, 2016 | Today in Crackdown
The İstanbul 9th Penal Court of Peace on Saturday arrested Akin Atalay, the chief executive officer of Turkish daily Cumhuriyet, the state-run Anadolu news agency reported Atalay was detained early on Friday at Istanbul Ataturk Airport after arriving from Berlin. An...
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