by TurkeyPurge | Mar 20, 2019 | Today in Crackdown
Two journalists from pro-Kurdish media organizations Mezopotamya news agency and Jinnews were briefly detained in Mardin on Wednesday. Media reported that Ahmet Kanbal from Mezopotamya and Rojda Aydin from Jinnews were taken into custody while they were in front of...
by TurkeyPurge | Oct 3, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
An appeals court in İstanbul on Tuesday upheld aggravated life sentences handed down to six jailed journalists including prominent figures Ahmet Altan and Nazlı Ilıcak. The journalists were given the sentences by the İstanbul 26th High Criminal Court in February after...
by TurkeyPurge | Sep 21, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
The Beyoğlu district governor’s office in İstanbul banned a journalism awards ceremony named after Kurdish dissident writer and activist Musa Anter and planned to be held at a hotel in İstanbul on Thursday evening due to an ongoing state of emergency in Turkey....
by TurkeyPurge | Jun 12, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
Turkish cartoonist Melih Gürler has been given 10-month prison sentence for insulting Turkish Justice Minister Bekir Bozdağ in a letter he sent to mprisoned pro-Kurdish politician Selahattin Demirtaş, according to a report in Görülmüştür.org. According to the website,...
by TurkeyPurge | Jun 2, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
Zekeriya Güzüpek, former head of the now-closed pro-Kurdish Dicle news agency (DİHA), and Mehmet Ali Ertaş, editor for DİHA’s Kurdish service, were detained by police in Diyarbakır province, according to the Evrensel daily. The houses of the chairman and editor of the...
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