by TurkeyPurge | Mar 16, 2019 | Uncategorized
FOX TV anchor Fatih Portakal, a critic of the government, has recently been investigated by a Turkish prosecutor due to text messages he sent to the former editor-in-chief of the Zaman newspaper, Ekrem Dumanlı, in 2015 conveying his condolences for the death of...
by TurkeyPurge | Nov 30, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
Family and Social Policies Minister Fatma Betül Sayan Kaya prevented a FOX TV reporter to record her voice during a speech she made on the sidelines of an Istanbul event on Nov 29. “Take it out. I am not going to talk to that,” Kaya said pointing to a FOX TV mic, and...
by TurkeyPurge | Nov 13, 2016 | Human Rights Abuses, Today in Crackdown
Ercan Gün, a Fox TV news director who is among scores of journalists jailed after a failed military coup in Turkey, said he has been subjected to physical violence and sexual harassment in prison. Çağrı Çetin and Bilge Yeloğlu, lawyers representing Gün, told Turkish...
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