by TurkeyPurge | Nov 22, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
Turkish journalist Murat Aksoy was sent back to prison on Thursday after a regional appeals court upheld a local court’s ruling to imprison him for 2 years and 1 month. A former columnist for the now now-closed Bugun daily newspaper, Aksoy spent 421 days in pretrial...
by TurkeyPurge | Nov 9, 2016 | Int'l Reactions
The London-based human rights organization Amnesty International has launched a campaign for urgent action against Turkish government’s tightening control over media outlets. Below is the statement released by the rights group on Nov. 8. “Nine journalists and board...
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