by TurkeyPurge | Jul 12, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
Journalist Mehmet Y. Yılmaz has said he was fired from Hurriyet newspaper after President Recep Tayyip Erdogan put pressure on Aydin Dogan, the owner of the daily back in the time, to fire him in Sept 2017. Stating that he was able to speak his mind in his columns...
by TurkeyPurge | Feb 14, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
One of the leading newspapers in Turkey, the Hürriyet daily, has refused to publish an interview with Orhan Pamuk, Turkey’s most famous writer and a Nobel laureate in literature, because the author voiced his objection to a constitutional reform package to be voted in...
by TurkeyPurge | Feb 11, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
Turkey’s Doğan Media Group has fired İrfan Değirmenci, a presenter on Kanal D, because he declared on social media that he would vote “no” in a referendum that will be held April 16 on constitutional amendments which will open the way to a switch from a parliamentary...
by TurkeyPurge | Feb 10, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
A columnist at Doğan Media Group’s Posta daily, Hakan Çelenk had his contract reportedly cancelled by the newspaper management days after he sarcastically criticized government plans for presidential referendum. “[Supposed that] I am an ill-intentioned president,...
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