Turkey Crackdown Chronicle: Week of May 5, 2019
May 9, 2019 5:48 PM ET
Journalist sentenced to 10 months in prison An Istanbul court on May 7 sentenced Cansu Pişkin, a reporter for the leftist daily Evrensel, to 10 months in prison for "making a target of a civil servant for terrorist organizations," the...
Turkey Crackdown Chronicle: Week of May 7, 2018
May 10, 2018 4:44 PM ET
Journalists arrested On May 3, authorities in the southern city of Mersin transferred İsmail Çoban, former news editor for the shuttered Kurdish language daily Azadiya Welat, to the southeastern city of Diyarbakır, where he will remain in custody pending...
Turkey convicts Cumhuriyet journalists on terrorism charges
April 25, 2018 5:32 PM ET
Istanbul, April 25, 2018--An Istanbul court today convicted 14 people affiliated with the independent daily Cumhuriyet of aiding terrorist organizations and sentenced them to jail terms ranging between three and seven years, the newspaper reported. The court placed the...
Turkey Crackdown Chronicle: Week of March 15, 2018
March 15, 2018 2:09 PM ET
Supreme Court says Can Dündar should face retrial Turkey's Supreme Court of Appeals on March 9 ruled that Can Dündar, former chief editor of the daily, Cumhuriyet, and Erdem Gül, the paper's Ankara representative, should face a retrial on...
Record number of journalists jailed as Turkey, China, Egypt pay scant price for repression
December 13, 2017 12:00 AM ET
For the second year in a row, the number of journalists imprisoned for their work hit a historical high, as the U.S. and other Western powers failed to pressure the world’s worst jailers--Turkey, China, and Egypt--into improving the bleak...
Ahmet Şık
December 12, 2017 4:30 PM ET
Police on December 29, 2016, detained Şık, an investigative journalist and a reporter for the opposition daily Cumhuriyet, on allegations of spreading terrorist propaganda on Twitter. Prosecutors questioned Şık about his tweets, three articles in Cumhuriyet, a public statement, and...
Turkey Crackdown Chronicle: Week of September 10, 2017
September 11, 2017 11:21 AM ET
Court orders four Cumhuriyet managers and journalists to remain in custody for trial A Turkish court remanded four members of the Cumhuriyet newspaper yesterday who are on trial for terrorism-related charges, according to reports from their employer and Reuters....
Trial of 17 Cumhuriyet newspaper employees begins in Turkey
July 24, 2017 1:44 PM ET
New York, July 24, 2017--The trial of 17 journalists, managers, and board members of the pro-opposition daily newspaper Cumhuriyet on terrorism-related charges is a further blow to press freedom in Turkey, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today....
Turkey Crackdown Chronicle: Week of June 18, 2017
June 21, 2017 11:09 AM ET
Prosecutor asks to reopen investigation into journalist for interview Public prosecutor Umut Tepe petitioned a Turkish court to allow him to reopen his investigation into jailed Cumhuriyet reporter Ahmet Şık on charges of producing propaganda for a terrorist organization,...