by TurkeyPurge | Dec 27, 2019 | Today in Crackdown
A total of six journalists and one other employee of Sözcü daily, a government-critical newspaper, have been convicted of “aiding the network of Turkey’s Gülen movement, which is accused of masterminding a failed coup in 2016. The movement denies any...
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by TurkeyPurge | Dec 3, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
Turkey has held the notorious title the leading jailer of journalists in the world for quite some time now. More than 300 journalists have ended up in pre-trial detention as part of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s dragnet against his critics, while thousands of...
by TurkeyPurge | Jun 28, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
Turkey’s Koç University has rejected the presentation of an academic paper at a workshop, finding it politically too sensitive for the current extreme conditions in Turkey, the Diken news website reported on Wednesday. Yasemin Yılmaz, whose paper is titled “Elite...
by TurkeyPurge | May 20, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
The Sözcü daily on Saturday published a totally blank edition to protest detention warrants issued the previous day for its owner and three of its employees. The İstanbul Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office issued detention warrants for owner Burak Akbay and reporter...
by TurkeyPurge | Apr 26, 2017 | Int'l Reactions
Turkey, which has around 200 journalists jailed in its prisons, is ranked 155th among 180 countries in the 2017 World Press Freedom Index released by Reporters Without Borders (RSF) on Wednesday. If Turkey falls four more ranks, it will make it to the list of the...
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