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Pro-Kurdish journalist sentenced to 15 months in prison on terror charges

Pro-Kurdish journalist sentenced to 15 months in prison on terror charges

by TurkeyPurge | Mar 27, 2019 | Today in Crackdown

Pro-Kurdish Mezopotamya news agency reporter Lezgin Akdeniz was sentenced to one year and 3 months in jail on charge of terrorist propaganda. Media reported that Akdeniz was convicted of the above-mentioned charge and was given 15 months of sentence. The court, later,...
Police detain two reporters from gov’t-raided JINHA news agency

Police detain two reporters from gov’t-raided JINHA news agency

by TurkeyPurge | Nov 6, 2016 | Today in Crackdown

Bengi Kömürcü and Duygu Ciniviz, two reporters for JINHA, pro-Kurdish news agency that the government closed down under post-coup emergency rule, have been detained in Istanbul. Journalists gathered at Kadıköy ferry port in order to report on a press meeting by some...
Cumhuriyet Editor-in-Chief Sabuncu and 8 others from daily arrested

Cumhuriyet Editor-in-Chief Sabuncu and 8 others from daily arrested

by TurkeyPurge | Nov 5, 2016 | Today in Crackdown

Nine journalists and executives from the Cumhuriyet daily, including its Editor-in-Chief Murat Sabuncu are arrested by the İstanbul 9th Penal Court of Peace on Saturday. Kadri Gürsel, Musa Kart, Güray Öz, Mustafa Kemal Güngör, Turhan Günay, Bülent Utku, Önder Çelik...
13 detained in Sakarya for attending protests against gov’t media crackdown in 2014

13 detained in Sakarya for attending protests against gov’t media crackdown in 2014

by TurkeyPurge | Nov 4, 2016 | Today in Crackdown

Sakarya Public Prosecutor’s Office issued detention warrants for 36 people who attended local protests against detainment of journalists Ekrem Dumanlı and Hidayet Karaca in 2014, as part of an investigation into the Gülen movement. According to an article Turkish TV...
ABA urges Obama to protest Turkey’s suppression of free speech

ABA urges Obama to protest Turkey’s suppression of free speech

by TurkeyPurge | Oct 17, 2016 | Int'l Reactions

The American Booksellers Association (ABA) joined American publishers, authors, and librarians in a letter urging U.S. President Barack Obama to protest the widespread suppression of free speech in Turkey during his September 4 meeting with Turkish President Tayyip...

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