Turkey Crackdown Chronicle: Week of August 27, 2017
August 31, 2017 12:14 PM ET
Turkish authorities confiscate columnist's passport Turkish police confiscated Aslı Erdoğan's passport as the former advisory board member of the shuttered pro-Kurdish daily Özgür Gündem and frequent columnist was on her way to Germany to accept an award for her...
Turkey arrests at least nine journalists
August 11, 2017 3:30 PM ET
New York, August 11, 2017--Turkish authorities should immediately free nine journalists police arrested yesterday on terrorism charges, and should release the dozens of journalists it has for months jailed on bogus similar charges, the Committee to Protect Journalists said...
Turkey Crackdown Chronicle: Week of August 6, 2017
August 9, 2017 11:23 AM ET
Police detain journalist Police detained Berivan Altan, a reporter for the news website Dihaber, at checkpoint in the southeastern province of Mersin last night because there was a warrant for her arrest, the website reported today. At the time...