Turkey Crackdown Chronicle: Week of March 26, 2017
March 27, 2017 10:23 AM ET
Istanbul court orders release, pending trial, of at least 19 journalists Istanbul's 25th Court for Serious Crimes today ordered the release, pending trial, of at least 19 journalists imprisoned in direct relation for their work following the July 2016...
Turkey Crackdown Chronicle: Week of January 15
January 17, 2017 11:53 AM ET
Newspaper distributor says security officers abducted, beat him Barış Boyraz, a former distributor for the shuttered Kurdish-language daily Azadiya Welat, told the daily newspaper Evrensel that men he believes to be plainclothes police on December 17, 2016, abducted him...
Turkey Crackdown Chronicle: Week of July 17
July 18, 2016 11:26 AM ET
Police raid and seal Meydan offices Istanbul police raided the offices of the pro-Hizmet daily Meydan at about 5 p.m. yesterday, local press reported. Police searched the offices in the Şirinevler district for three hours and confiscated documents, before...