Turkey Crackdown Chronicle: Week of October 15, 2017
October 16, 2017 12:54 PM ET
Police conduct house raids, arrest at least 7 journalists Turkish police detained at least seven journalists from leftist and pro-Kurdish media outlets during house raids that took place yesterday in Istanbul and today in Ankara, according to the independent...
Turkey Crackdown Chronicle: Week of May 28, 2017
May 30, 2017 12:51 PM ET
Chair and editor of shuttered news agency arrested Police in the southeastern Turkish city of Diyarbakır on the night of May 31 arrested Zekeriya Güzüpek, the former chair of the board of the shuttered pro-Kurdish Dicle News Agency (DİHA),...
Turkey Crackdown Chronicle: Week of June 12
June 13, 2016 12:06 PM ET
Constitutional Court rejects journalist's appeal Turkey's Constitutional Court today ruled that journalist Mehmet Baransu's constitutional right to freedom of expression and the constitution's guarantees of press freedom were not contravened in the journalist's March 2015 arrest in connection with...
Turkey fines TV stations for protest coverage
June 14, 2013 1:33 PM ET
Istanbul, June 14, 2013--The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on the Turkish state media regulator to reverse its decision to penalize four TV stations in connection with their coverage of the demonstrations that have occurred nationwide over the past two...
For Turkish media, Taksim story reveals flaws, threats
June 7, 2013 3:00 PM ET
The coverage of the Taksim Square protests will not be remembered as a moment of glory for a number of Turkish mainstream media. While demonstrators were being tear-gassed and beaten by police a week ago, CNN Türk was airing...
Reports of anti-press attacks amid Turkey protests
June 3, 2013 2:40 PM ET
Istanbul, June 3, 2013--The press has come under fire from both government officials and protesters amid nationwide demonstrations in Turkey, with instances of attacks, obstruction, detention, and vandalism being reported, according to news accounts and local journalists....