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,...
Turkey Crackdown Chronicle: Week of May 21, 2017
May 22, 2017 10:51 AM ET
Two journalists arraigned, finance manager released A court in Istanbul arraigned Gökmen Ulu and Mediha Olgun, journalists for the secularist, nationalist daily Sözcü, one of the last remaining widely circulated newspapers to be consistently critical of the government, on...
Turkey Crackdown Chronicle: Week of May 7
May 8, 2017 12:24 PM ET
Editor detained at courthouse Police in Istanbul's Çağlayan Courthouse today detained Çağlar Özbilgin, an editor for the leftist news website sendika.org, his employer reported. Özbilgin was there to attend a hearing of his trial on charges of "insulting the...
Turkey Crackdown Chronicle: Week of April 9, 2017
April 11, 2017 10:03 AM ET
Erdoğan vows jailed Die Welt correspondent will never return to Germany Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan last night vowed that Die Welt Turkey correspondent Deniz Yücel, a dual citizen of Germany and Turkey would never be allowed to return...
Turkey Crackdown Chronicle: Week of April 2, 2017
April 3, 2017 10:59 AM ET
Cumhuriyet journalists respond to indictment Cumhuriyet journalists Kadri Gürsel and Murat Sabuncu, who were listed in an indictment against the Turkish daily earlier this week, reacted to the accusations presented to the court, online newspaper Demokrat Haber and Cumhuriyet...
Turkey Crackdown Chronicle: Week of January 1
January 2, 2017 2:54 PM ET
Jailed investigative journalist held in isolation Investigative journalist Ahmet Şık has been kept in isolation in prison and denied basic rights since his arrest last week, according to reports that cited his lawyer. Sık, who was detained December 29...
Reporter disparaged in Turkish parliament, journalists harassed
June 3, 2014 4:13 PM ET
New York, June 3, 2014--The Committee to Protect Journalists is alarmed by today's reports that Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in Parliament called CNN journalist Ivan Watson a "flunky" and said the foreign press was "literally executing their duties...
UNESCO awards Ahmet Şık annual press freedom prize
April 11, 2014 1:12 PM ET
New York, April 11, 2014--The Committee to Protect Journalists congratulates Turkish investigative journalist and book author Ahmet Şık on being awarded UNESCO's prestigious Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize. The annual prize, named after slain Colombian journalist Guillermo Cano Isaza,...