Turkey Crackdown Chronicle: Week of May 21, 2018
May 24, 2018 4:45 PM ET
Turkey will continue to block Wikipedia During a May 18 press conference, Turkish Transportation, Maritime Affairs, and Communication Minister Ahmet Arslan said that Wikipedia will remain blocked in the country because the website portrays Turkey as a supporter of...
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 Crackdown Chronicle: Week of April 2, 2018
April 5, 2018 4:54 PM ET
Journalists sentenced An Istanbul court convicted in a retrial Hasan Cemal, a veteran journalist and a columnist for the news website T24, on charges of "making propaganda for a [terrorist] organization," and issued a suspended sentence of 18 months...
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...
Willing Accomplice
April 25, 2017 8:11 AM ET
Collusion by the Turkish media compounds the country's crisis By Andrew Finkel Turkey's bloody, failed military coup on July 15, 2016, and the ruthless crackdown that followed are testament to the country's escalating crisis of democracy. Though the crisis had...
Turkey Crackdown Chronicle: Week of March 5
March 6, 2017 10:17 AM ET
Erdoğan says jailed Die Welt correspondent 'German agent,' Kurdish separatist Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on March 3 said that Deniz Yücel, the Turkey correspondent for the German newspaper Die Welt and a dual citizen of Germany and Turkey...
Turkey Crackdown Chronicle: Week of February 19
February 21, 2017 9:56 AM ET
Detention of Die Welt Turkey correspondent complicates relations with Germany The detention of Deniz Yücel, Turkey correspondent for the German newspaper Die Welt, has complicated relations with German officials, the socialist daily Evrensel, the German news website Handelsbatt Global,...
Turkey Crackdown Chronicle: Week of January 8
January 9, 2017 12:27 PM ET
Erdoğan praises Trump for 'beating down' CNN reporter Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan praised U.S. President-elect Donald Trump for "beating down" ("benzetmek") CNN senior White House correspondent Jim Costa in a January 11 press conference, according to media reports...
Turkey closes 15 media outlets, raids newspaper office, detains at least 12
October 31, 2016 1:48 PM ET
New York, October 31, 2016 -- The Turkish government should immediately reverse an emergency decree closing at least 15 news agencies, newspapers, and magazines and should immediately release all journalists imprisoned on bogus charges for their work, the Committee...
Turkey Crackdown Chronicle: Week of October 23
October 24, 2016 10:22 AM ET
EU Parliament urges Turkey to release journalists The European Parliament urged Turkey to release all journalists jailed without proof of their alleged involvement in the failed July 15 military coup, Hürriyet Daily News reported, based on the text of...