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Journalists Ahmet Şık, Murat Sabuncu and Akın Atalay denied release from prison

Journalists Ahmet Şık, Murat Sabuncu and Akın Atalay denied release from prison

by TurkeyPurge | Jan 17, 2018 | Today in Crackdown

An Istanbul court has turned down requests that were launched for the release of veteran journalists Ahmet Şık, Murat Sabuncu and Akın Atalay three days ago. Lawyers representing the three Cumhuriyet journalists submitted petitions to the Istanbul court overseeing the...
Journalist, lawyer face 5-year jail time for accusing minister’s spouse of ByLock use

Journalist, lawyer face 5-year jail time for accusing minister’s spouse of ByLock use

by TurkeyPurge | Nov 2, 2017 | Today in Crackdown

Journalist Ismail Küçükkaya and lawyer Fidel Okan face up to 5 years in jail for implying that the family issues minister Fatma Betül Sayan Kaya’s husband had used the controversial mobile app, ByLock. An Istanbul prosecutor earlier launched...
Gov’t selling properties of 9 media outlets seized from critics after failed coup

Gov’t selling properties of 9 media outlets seized from critics after failed coup

by TurkeyPurge | Sep 6, 2017 | Today in Crackdown

Properties belonging to nine of the media outlets that the Turkish government seized under post-coup emergency rule have been put up for sale by the state-run Savings Deposit Insurance Fund (TMSF). In a statement on Sept 5, TMSF listed properties belonging to TV 10...
Chief editor of another daily newspaper sent to jail

Chief editor of another daily newspaper sent to jail

by TurkeyPurge | Jun 4, 2017 | Today in Crackdown

İlker Yücel, editor-in-chief of the Aydınlık daily, which is affiliated with the ultranationalist Homeland Party (VP) of Doğu Perinçek, was arrested by a court after being detained in Turkey’s Iğdır province on Saturday. “I have been detained in Iğdır for not...
Amnesty Int’l: Turkey journalists languishing behind bars for months

Amnesty Int’l: Turkey journalists languishing behind bars for months

by TurkeyPurge | Feb 16, 2017 | Int'l Reactions

Turkish journalists have been languishing in prison for months, Amnesty International said as part of a recent campaign to demand their release. “Turkey has earned an accolade which holds no glory,” the monitoring group stated underlining that Turkish government has...
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