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 | May 20, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
Machines that would once print daily copies of the Zaman newspaper and its affiliates have been put up for sale by the state-run Savings Deposit Insurance Fund (TMSF). 2 newspaper printing machines, 2 CTP machines, and 1 packaging line that were seized from the...
by TurkeyPurge | Jan 11, 2018 | Int'l Reactions
Fourteen journalists and writers in France penned letters for their Turkish colleagues, currently behind bars or recently-released, as part of a solidarity campaign with the media in Turkey. “14 French personalities, godmothers and sponsors of imprisoned journalists,...
by TurkeyPurge | Aug 19, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
Pro-Kurdish Diha news agency reporter Mehmet Siddik Damar was put in pretrial detention over his social media posts on Friday. According to media, Damar visited the courthouse in Mardin’s Kiziltepe district to give his testimony over terror charges. The prosecutor...
by TurkeyPurge | Aug 5, 2017 | Int'l Reactions
WeltN24, the German media group that publishes Die Welt daily newspaper, has lodged a complaint to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), over Turkey’s jailing of journalist Deniz Yücel. The veteran Die Welt reporter was first detained as part of an investigation...