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 October 2
October 3, 2016 9:48 AM ET
Reporter arraigned on terrorism charges for Facebook posts The Mersin Court of Penal Peace last night arraigned Cemil Uğur, a reporter for the left-wing Evrensel newspaper, on charges of "being member of a [terrorist] organization," and "propagandizing for a...
Turkey Crackdown Chronicle: Week of September 4
September 6, 2016 12:43 PM ET
Police raid Kurdish magazine office Police raided Istanbul office of the pro-Kurdish magazine Özgür Halk today, the pro-Kurdish Dicle News Agency (DİHA) reported. DİHA reported that the raid, which was in progress at the time of publication, was related...
Attacks on the Press in 2011: Turkey's Legal Problem
February 21, 2012 11:19 PM ET
With the aid of anachronistic legislation and a rigid judiciary, Turkish officials and politicians have curbed free expression by subjecting journalists to endless court proceedings and legal costs. The EU and the U.S. are no help. By Robert Mahoney...
Several tallies, one conclusion on Turkish press freedom
December 8, 2011 4:13 PM ET
Press freedom in Turkey is under assault. Thousands of criminal cases have been filed against reporters, the Criminal Code and Anti-Terrorism Act are used routinely to silence critical news coverage, and Kurdish journalists face constant persecution. Today CPJ released its...
Mission Journal: Media under growing pressure in Turkey
July 27, 2011 10:40 AM ET
Turkey is awash in media. The newsstands of Istanbul are buried under some 35 dailies of every format and political stripe. The airwaves are thick with TV channels and Internet penetration is tracking an economy growing at Chinese speed....