by TurkeyPurge | Sep 18, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
The trial of 30 journalists and newspaper executives from the now-closed Zaman newspaper started on Monday, after a wait of 414 days in pretrial detention for most of them, the t24 news website reported. The case is being heard by the İstanbul 13th High Criminal Court...
by TurkeyPurge | Aug 18, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
Zeliha Esra Karayeğen, the 23-year-old daughter of jailed journalist Ibrahim Karayegen was put in pretrial arrest on charge of membership to a terrorist organization, on Friday. A former managing editor at the government-closed Zaman newspaper, Karayeğen was...