by TurkeyPurge | Nov 22, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
Turkish journalist Murat Aksoy was sent back to prison on Thursday after a regional appeals court upheld a local court’s ruling to imprison him for 2 years and 1 month. A former columnist for the now now-closed Bugun daily newspaper, Aksoy spent 421 days in pretrial...
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by TurkeyPurge | Oct 27, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
Journalist Murat Aksoy, who spent 421 days under arrest as part of the Turkish government’s post-coup crackdown against dissidents said his only offence was to write. A former columnist for the now now-closed Bugun daily newspaper, Aksoy was released released by...
by TurkeyPurge | Oct 24, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
Atilla Taş, a former singer and a columnist for the now-closed Meydan daily, Murat Aksoy, former columnist of now-closed Bugün daily, and Davut Aydın, a former teacher, were released by an İstanbul court on Tuesday after 416 in pretrial detention over alleged links to...
by TurkeyPurge | Nov 16, 2016 | Today in Crackdown
Fundamental rights are suspended; political opponents, intellectuals are jailed; media is censored. Same old same old in Turkey. The pervasive sense of fear, apprehension and the threat to fundamental rights including the right to life in the emergency rule under the...
by TurkeyPurge | Oct 23, 2016 | Int'l Reactions
The Brussels-based International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has launched a global solidarity campaign in support of imprisoned Turkish journalists and the government-seized media outlets on October 21. “Turkey: 90 journalists in jail – have your say!” read...
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