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The 35th Istanbul Court of Serious Crimes on June 29, 2018, ordered Eren Erdem, a politician and journalist, to be imprisoned pending trial, according to reports. The state-owned Anatolia Agency reported on May 25 that the court accepted an indictment against Erdem. The charges against Erdem relate to his position as chief editor of the…
An Istanbul court on April 10, 2018 ordered Hicran Ürün, an editor at the pro-Kurdish newspaper Özgürlükçü Demokrasi, to be detained pending the outcome of a trial, along with Mehmet Ali Çelebi and Reyhan Hacıoğlu, who are also editors at the paper, according to reports. All three are of "being members of a [terrorist] organization,"…
An Istanbul court on April 10, 2018, ordered Reyhan Hacıoğlu, an editor at the pro-Kurdish newspaper Özgürlükçü Demokrasi, to be detained pending the outcome of a trial, along with Mehmet Ali Çelebi and Hicran Ürün, who are also editors at the paper, according to reports. All three are of "being members of a [terrorist] organization,"…
An Istanbul court on April 6, 2018 ordered İshak Yasul, the responsible news editor for the pro-Kurdish newspaper Özgürlükçü Demokrasi, and İhsan Yaşar, the paper’s publisher, to be detained pending an indictment being filed in their case, according to reports. The court order came after an early morning police raid on March 28, 2018, on…
An Istanbul court on April 10, 2018 ordered Mehmet Ali Çelebi, an editor at the pro-Kurdish newspaper Özgürlükçü Demokrasi, to be detained pending the outcome of a trial, along with Reyhan Hacıoğlu and Hicran Ürün, who are also editors at the paper, according to reports. All three are of "being members of a [terrorist] organization,"…
Istanbul police on March 28, 2018, detained İhsan Yaşar, the publisher of the pro-Kurdish newspaper Özgürlükçü Demokrasi, along with Kasım Zengin, the owner of Gün Printing House, which printed the paper, and at least eight printing house staff during an early morning raid on the Beyoğlu district building that houses the paper and printer, according…
Police detained İsminaz Temel, a reporter and editor for the socialist Etkin News Agency (ETHA), along with one of her colleagues and several socialist lawyers, politicians, and activists, in a series of raids in Istanbul on October 19, 2017, according to the independent news site Bianet. A court on October 26 ordered Temel and her colleague…
Murat Dağdeviren, a local journalist and former newspaper publisher from western Turkey, has been detained since July 2016. Authorities shuttered his outlet, Demokrat Gebze, and in 2017, sentenced Dağdeviren to more than seven years in prison. A court in the western Turkish province of Kocaeli convicted Dağdeviren of “being a member of a [terrorist] organization,”…
Police in the coastal town of Bodrum detained Ayşe Nazlı Ilıcak — a former commentator for the pro-opposition daily newspaper Özgür Düşünce and Can Erzincan TV who is better known by her pen name, Nazlı Ilıcak — on July 26, 2016, and transferred her to Istanbul for questioning as part of a sweeping purge of journalists and…
Police first arrested Altan, a well-known novelist and journalist, alongside his brother, the economics professor and columnist Mehmet Altan, on September 10, 2016, on suspicion they were followers of exiled preacher Fethullah Gülen. The Turkish government accuses Gülen of maintaining a terrorist organization and "parallel state structure" within Turkey – FETÖ/PDY, as the government calls…