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The Supreme Court of Appeals upheld a lower court’s verdict that sentenced Meltem Oktay, a former reporter for the shuttered pro-Kurdish Dicle News Agency (DİHA), and fellow reporter Uğur Akgül to four years in prison on charges of producing propaganda for the outlawed Kurdistan Worker’s Party (PKK) in connection with material they published to social…
Istanbul police on August 10, 2017, detained Ahmet Sağırlı, who was a columnist for the pro-government daily Türkiye until he was fired a week before his arrest, according to news reports. CPJ was unable to determine the reason for the journalist’s dismissal. Sağırlı was one of 35 journalists and media workers whose arrest a Turkish…
Istanbul police on August 10, 2017, detained Yusuf Duran, a former page designer for the mainstream daily Vatan, according to news reports. Duran was one of 35 journalists and media workers whose arrest a Turkish court mandated the week before as part of a sweeping purge of suspected followers of exiled preacher Fethullah Gülen, according…
Istanbul police on August 10, 2017, detained Ömer Faruk Aydemir, news editor for the right-wing İhlas News Agency (İHA), according to news reports. Aydemir was one of 35 journalists and media workers whose arrest a Turkish court mandated the week before as part of a sweeping purge of suspected followers of exiled preacher Fethullah Gülen,…
Istanbul police on August 10, 2017, detained Burak Ekici, the former editor for the online edition of the socialist daily Birgün, his paper reported. Ekici was one of 35 journalists and media workers whose arrest a Turkish court mandated the week before as part of a sweeping purge of suspected followers of exiled preacher Fethullah…
Istanbul police on August 12, 2017, detained Yasir Kaya, the former news editor for Fenerbahçe TV, a sports channel that shares its name with a sports club, the daily Cumhuriyet reported. Kaya was one of 35 journalists and media workers whose arrest a Turkish court mandated the week before as part of a sweeping purge…
Mehmet Güleş, a former reporter for the now shuttered pro-Kurdish news agencies DİHA and Dihaber, is serving over nine years in prison. In 2019, the journalist reported health problems related to a hunger strike, but he refused hospital treatment because he would have to wear handcuffs. Police in Turkey’s eastern Elazığ province detained Güleş…
Police on February 14, 2017, detained Deniz Yücel, the Turkey correspondent for the German newspaper Die Welt, according to Turkish and German news reports. An Istanbul court on February 27 ordered Yücel to be jailed pending investigation into claims of “propagandizing for a [terrorist] organization” and “provoking the people to hatred and animosity,” the daily…
Muhammet Sait Kuloğlu, the founder and publisher of news website Subuhaber, is one of several journalists imprisoned after the failed 2016 coup attempt. He is serving seven and a half years in prison after being convicted of being a member of a terrorist organization. The Supreme Court of Appeals upheld his conviction in March 2020….
Hanım Büşra Erdal, a former columnist and court reporter for the shuttered daily newspaper Zaman, is one of several journalists imprisoned after the failed 2016 coup attempt. In 2018 she was found guilty of being a member of a terrorist organization. The Supreme Court of Appeals upheld her conviction in March 2020. Police on July…