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 | Jul 12, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
Journalist Mehmet Y. Yılmaz has said he was fired from Hurriyet newspaper after President Recep Tayyip Erdogan put pressure on Aydin Dogan, the owner of the daily back in the time, to fire him in Sept 2017. Stating that he was able to speak his mind in his columns...
by TurkeyPurge | Apr 28, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
Turkish police has confirmed to the Hürriyet daily that Turkish businessman Mustafa Ceyhan who was kidnapped on April 28 by a group of eight people in front of a courthouse in Baku, was flown to Turkey early on April 29. Upon his forcefull return to Turkey,...
by TurkeyPurge | Aug 30, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
Several columnists affiliated with the pro-government Türkiye daily have targeted Turkey’s Doğan media group in columns they released on Wednesday, suggesting that the Turkish government should seize its largest media outlet, the Hürriyet daily, by appointing trustees...
by TurkeyPurge | May 22, 2017 | Human Tragedies, Turkey’s Exiled Journalists Speak Out
Under post-coup pressure from the government, companies in Turkey prefer not to employ dismissed public workers, leaving them to what Amnesty International calls a civil death. H.Ü and his wife, both teachers with experience of 10 years each, were dismissed from their...
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