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Assets of 11 media outlets seized from gov’t critics up for sale

Assets of 11 media outlets seized from gov’t critics up for sale

by TurkeyPurge | Apr 27, 2018 | Today in Crackdown

Turkey’s Savings Deposit Insurance Fund (TMSF) has put property belonging to 11 media outlets that were closed down by the Turkish government in the aftermath of a failed coup on July 15, 2016 up for sale for TL 606,395. The property belongs to media organizations...
Amnesty Int’l launches campaign for action against Turkey’s media crackdown

Amnesty Int’l launches campaign for action against Turkey’s media crackdown

by TurkeyPurge | Nov 9, 2016 | Int'l Reactions

The London-based human rights organization Amnesty International has launched a campaign for urgent action against Turkish government’s tightening control over media outlets. Below is the statement released by the rights group on Nov. 8. “Nine journalists and board...
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...
Freedom House: US should try to stop Turkey from becoming dictatorship

Freedom House: US should try to stop Turkey from becoming dictatorship

by TurkeyPurge | Nov 2, 2016 | Int'l Reactions

The United States should exert every effort to stop its NATO ally from becoming a dictatorship, Daniel Calingaert, the acting president of Freedom House said on Monday. The US-based think tank issued a written statement in the light of the Turkish government’s...
Turkish NGOs decry lack of media attention to press briefing after gov’t crackdown

Turkish NGOs decry lack of media attention to press briefing after gov’t crackdown

by TurkeyPurge | Nov 1, 2016 | Today in Crackdown

Representatives of 45 NGOs and trade bodies gathered to make a press meeting about the post-coup emergency rule in a well-known reception hall in Turkey’s Diyarbakır province but failed to draw attention of journalists, on Tuesday. “Now, we are struggling to make our...

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