by TurkeyPurge | Jul 27, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
According to an Independent Communication Network (BİA) report, 315 media employees in Turkey, including reporters, columnists, executives and illustrators, face 47 aggravated life sentences, one life sentence, 3,034 years of imprisonment and TL 4.040.000 ($840,000)...
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 | May 9, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
Ahmet Turan Alkan, a columnist from the now-closed Zaman daily who was jailed in the aftermath of a failed coup attempt in Turkey on July 15, 2016, has sent a letter from Silivri Prison, where he has been incarcerated for 22 months. In his letter Alkan, 65, explains...
by TurkeyPurge | Jan 22, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
Journalist Nurcan Baysal has been taken into police custody over her social media posts criticizing the Turkish military operation in the Afrin region of Syria. “My client was detained at around 00:10 after police broke into her home in Diyarbakir. She is being held...
by TurkeyPurge | Jan 11, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
At least 30 people were detained by anti-terrorism police in Istanbul early Wednesday. The detainees include Veli Büyükşahin, columnist for the Artigercek online news portal and the former chairman of the now-defunct TV10 television channel, as well as the writer...
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