by TurkeyPurge | Feb 26, 2019 | Today in Crackdown
Teoman Kadioglu, a columnist with the Posta newspaper for 15 years, has been fired over a tweet he posted about decreasing sales of a sister publication. “Hurriyet newspaper has a actual daily circulation of 28,000 in Istanbul. It is 60,000 in Turkey as a whole. Are...
by TurkeyPurge | Apr 1, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
Turkey’s only Kurdish daily newspaper Rojnameya Welat has ceased its print edition as the printing house that publishes the newspaper was taken over by the government last week. Turkish authorities took control of the pro-Kurdish Özgürlükçü Demokrasi newspaper and 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 | Sep 16, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
Kemal Özer, a reporter and nature photographer for Evrensel daily newspaper, was put in pretrial detention on terror charges on Friday. Detained in Tunceli province as part of an investigation into the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) on Sept 4, Özer was...
by TurkeyPurge | Jun 21, 2017 | Hate Crime, Human Rights Abuses
The pro-government Sabah daily has established a hotline to receive tips about the the Europe-based followers of the Gülen Movement, which the President along with top state officials pinned the blame on for the July 15 coup attempt. Sabah Avrupa, the newspaper’s...