by TurkeyPurge | Oct 24, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
A Turkish court, on Tuesday, released Ömer Çelik , from the pro-Kurdish news agency DIHA, pending trial while ruling to keep the other two journalists in the same trial, Tunca Öğreten and Mahir Kanaat in detention on remand. The three are among six journalists who...
by TurkeyPurge | Jan 17, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
Three out of 6 Turkish journalists who have been kept under police custody for the past 24 days, were arrested over terrorism charges on Tuesday. Police teams detained the six journalists — DİHA news manager Ömer Çelik, one of the editors of the Diken news portal,...
by TurkeyPurge | Dec 25, 2016 | Today in Crackdown
As a government-led crackdown on critical media outlets in the country continues at full speed, Turkish police teams on Sunday detained five more journalists during simultaneous raids in İstanbul and Diyarbakır. Pro-Kurdish Dicle news agency (DİHA) news manager Ömer...