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 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 12
February 14, 2017 10:31 AM ET
Publisher closes magazine for cartoon lampooning Moses The publisher of the cartoon magazine GırGır announced today that he was closing down the magazine after its publication of a cartoon depicting Moses irritating his followers wandering in the desert by...
Turkey Crackdown Chronicle: Week of August 28
August 29, 2016 10:30 AM ET
Government revokes press credentials for 115 journalists Turkey's General Directorate for Press, Broadcasting, and Information (BYEGM, by its Turkish acronym) -- the bureau within the prime minister's office responsible for accrediting journalists -- today revoked the credentials of 115...