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/,...
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...
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...
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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...
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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