Turkey Crackdown Chronicle: Week of September 27, 2018
October 4, 2018 3:34 PM ET
Erdoğan in Germany A Turkish man wearing a "freedom for journalists" T-shirt was thrown out of a press conference between President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and German Chancellor Angela Merkel in Berlin on September 28, video from Euronews and Özgürüz...
Turkish court upholds life sentences without parole for four journalists
October 3, 2018 3:25 PM ET
Istanbul, October 3, 2018--An Istanbul court of appeals yesterday upheld the sentences of life in prison without parole handed to four prominent Turkish journalists in February, media reported. Mehmet Altan, his brother Ahmet Altan, Nazlı Ilıcak, and Fevzi Yazıcı...
CPJ calls on European Council and European Commission to raise press freedom with Turkey
March 22, 2018 4:11 PM ET
CPJ calls on the presidents of the European Council and European Commission to request the release of Turkish journalists as a matter of priority during a scheduled meeting with President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, in Varna, Bulgari.
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...
Turkey sentences 4 journalists to life in prison, releases and indicts another
February 16, 2018 4:04 PM ET
Istanbul, February 16, 2018--The Committee to Protect Journalists condemned a Turkish court's decision to sentence four journalists to life in prison without parole, and called on Turkish authorities to release them without delay. In a separate case, Turkey must...
Fevzi Yazıcı
December 12, 2017 4:30 PM ET
Turkish authorities issued a warrant for the detention of Fevzi Yazıcı, the then-44-year-old layout editor of the shuttered newspaper Zaman, on July 27, 2016. CPJ was unable to determine the precise date he was taken into custody.Istanbul's Third Court of...
Turkey Crackdown Chronicle: Week of June 25, 2017
June 26, 2017 10:10 AM ET
BBC reporter refused entry Police at Istanbul's Atatürk Airport yesterday detained BBC reporter Jiyar Gol for five hours before putting him on a plane out of the country, the journalist wrote on Twitter. The journalist tweeted that he believes...
Turkey Crackdown Chronicle: Week of July 31
August 1, 2016 11:42 AM ET
Court indicts 12 media workers on terrorism charges An Istanbul court last night indicted 12 journalists on charges of being a member of a terrorist organization -- the Hizmet movement, which the Turkish government classes as a terrorist group...
Turkey Crackdown Chronicle: Week of July 24
July 25, 2016 11:37 AM ET
At least 48 journalists detained in one week Police in Turkey detained at least 48 journalists in the past week, according to the independent news website P24 and the Twitter account of Ben Gazeteciyim, a volunteer association of Turkish...