by TurkeyPurge | Apr 3, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
Veteran Turkish journalist Hasan Cemal has been given a suspended sentence of three months, 22 days for a series of articles documenting the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) withdrawal from Turkey as part of an agreement with the government. According to a report by the...
by TurkeyPurge | Mar 1, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
Veteran Turkish journalist Hasan Cemal has been given a suspended prison sentence of 11 months, 20 days on charges of insulting Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. Cemal is a columnist with the T24 news website and a founding member of the P24 Independent...
by TurkeyPurge | Oct 31, 2016 | Today in Crackdown
The press cards of veteran journalists Hasan Cemal and Doğan Akın have been cancelled by the Prime Ministry’s Directorate General of Press and Information amid growing government censorship and restrictions on freedom of the press in the country. Cemal is currently...