by TurkeyPurge | Dec 24, 2016 | Today in Crackdown
Aydın Engin, a veteran columnist for the Cumhuriyet daily, has reported that he received two death threats last week in İstanbul. Engin was first threatened on his way to a meeting with readers at an İstanbul bookstore on Saturday. He reported that one of three...
by TurkeyPurge | Oct 31, 2016 | Today in Crackdown
Amid widespread concerns over deteriorating freedom of the press in Turkey, Turkey on Monday detained 13 journalists from the secularist and critical Cumhuriyet daily including the paper’s Editor-in-Chief Murat Sabuncu and its editorial consultant Kadri Gürsel...