Turkey Crackdown Chronicle: Week of May 26, 2019
May 30, 2019 1:13 PM ET
More journalists beaten in Turkey On May 25, three men beat Selahattin Önkibar, a columnist for the ultranationalist opposition news website Odatv, near his house in Ankara, the leftist daily Evrensel reported. Önkibar is the fifth journalist to be...
Turkey Crackdown Chronicle: Week of February 19, 2018
February 22, 2018 2:09 PM ET
Journalists acquitted, released Turkish authorities on February 17 released from jail Deniz Yücel, Turkey correspondent for the German newspaper Die Welt, who had been imprisoned for a year pending investigation, according to Reuters. A Turkish court on the same...