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39 TRT journalists get 260 years in prison on terror, coup charges: report

39 TRT journalists get 260 years in prison on terror, coup charges: report

by TurkeyPurge | Feb 27, 2019 | Today in Crackdown

The Ankara 22nd High Criminal Court has handed down jail sentences of varying lengths to journalists from the state-run Turkish Radio and Television (TRT)  on charges of “membership in a terrorist group.” According to the https://jailedjournos.com/2019/02/26/trt/,...
State broadcaster refuses to air main opposition’s election advert promising to lift State of Emergency

State broadcaster refuses to air main opposition’s election advert promising to lift State of Emergency

by TurkeyPurge | Jun 3, 2018 | Today in Crackdown

State-run broadcaster TRT has refused to air main opposition Republican People’s Party’s (CHP) election advert which promises lift the post-coup State of Emergency. “TRT’s inspection unit did not approve our advert. They did not air the advert that we had paid for. It...
Former editor-in-chief of state-run TRT News gets 9 years, 9 months on terror charges

Former editor-in-chief of state-run TRT News gets 9 years, 9 months on terror charges

by TurkeyPurge | Apr 3, 2018 | Today in Crackdown

Ahmet Böken, a Turkish journalist and Former editor-in-chief of public broadcaster TRT News, has been handed down a prison sentence of nine years, nine months on charges of membership in a terrorist organization. Böken was among the dozens of journalists who were...
[VIDEO] Former TRT producer detained while on way to escape to Greece

[VIDEO] Former TRT producer detained while on way to escape to Greece

by TurkeyPurge | Feb 25, 2018 | Today in Crackdown

A former producer at the state-run broadcaster TRT, identified as E.D., was detained at a Bodrum hotel where he was allegedly making plans to sneak into a Greek island in the Aegean Sea. Media reported Feb 23 that police raided a hotel in Mugla’s Bodrum district upon...
15 years jail time sought for former editor in chief of state-run TRT News

15 years jail time sought for former editor in chief of state-run TRT News

by TurkeyPurge | Jan 25, 2018 | Today in Crackdown

An indictment prepared by an Ankara prosecutor seeks 15 years years sentence for Ahmet Böken, former editor in chief of state-run TRT News, over alleged link to Turkey’s Gülen group, which is accused by the Turkish gov’t of masterminding a coup attempt in...
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