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Turkey Crackdown Chronicle: Week of August 13, 2018
August 16, 2018 5:45 PM ET
Capital Markets Board issues warning on coverage of financial markets The Turkish Capital Markets Board (SPK) said in a statement that Article 107 of the Law no. 6362 on "market fraud" will be used against those who "spread fabricated, false and fallacious news about the economy," independent news website...
How Turkey silences journalists online, one removal request at a time
August 13, 2018 12:00 PM ET
On June 19, Abdülhamit Bilici, the last editor-in-chief of the now-shuttered Turkish paper Zaman, tweeted about the decline of press freedom in his home country. If you can see his tweet, you are probably not in Turkey because it is among the over 1.5 million tweets belonging to journalists...
Turkey Crackdown Chronicle: Week of August 6, 2018
August 9, 2018 2:58 PM ET
Journalist arrested Authorities in the southeastern city of Mardin on August 8 took Uğur Akgül, a former reporter for the shuttered pro-Kurdish Dicle News Agency (DİHA), into custody to serve his prison sentence of two years and six months after a court rejected his appeal, according to the pro-Kurdish...
Turkey Crackdown Chronicle: Week of July 30, 2018
August 2, 2018 12:14 PM ET
Journalist threatened Hale Gönültaş, a reporter for the news website Gazete Duvar, received a death threat on July 30, three days after the publication of her feature on the Islamic State militant group selling Yezidi women as slaves, her employer reported. Gönültaş's report stated that at least one Yezidi...
Turkey Crackdown Chronicle: Week of July 23, 2018
July 26, 2018 1:57 PM ET
Journalist arraigned An Istanbul court on July 19 arraigned Mustafa Gökkılıç, a former reporter for the now-closed liberal daily Radikal, on charges of having ties to the Gülen movement, which the government considers a terrorist organization, according to the state news agency Anatolia....
Turkey Crackdown Chronicle: Week of July 16, 2018
July 19, 2018 4:20 PM ET
Journalists in court An Istanbul court today found Canan Coşkun, a court reporter with the daily Cumhuriyet, guilty of "making targets of those assigned to combat terrorism" and sentenced her to two years and three months in prison, her employer reported. She is not in government custody, the report...
Turkey Crackdown Chronicle: Week of July 9, 2018
July 12, 2018 2:31 PM ET
Journalist released Authorities in the eastern city of Elazığ on July 9 released from custody journalist Şerife Oruç, who is on trial for terrorism-related charges, the news website Gazete Karınca reported. Her trial is ongoing....
Turkish court hands heavy sentences to Zaman journalists
July 6, 2018 3:38 PM ET
New York, July 6, 2018--Turkish authorities should drop all charges against six journalists who worked for the now-shuttered Zaman daily newspaper, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today. The journalists were found guilty today by a court in Istanbul and handed heavy prison sentences, BBC Türkçe and the daily...
Turkey Crackdown Chronicle: Week of June 17
June 21, 2018 1:22 PM ET
Ahead of election, OSCE highlights restrictive media environment In a report on Turkey's elections this month, the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) said, "The media landscape is dominated by outlets whose owners are considered affiliated with the government or depend on public contracts." The report added...