Turkey Crackdown Chronicle: Week of August 13, 2017
August 14, 2017 12:10 PM ET
Court jails journalist pending trial for social media activity A court in Turkey's southeastern Mardin province ordered Mehmet Sıddık Damar, a former reporter for the shuttered, pro-Kurdish Dicle News Agency (DİHA), jailed pending trial on charges of "propagandizing for...
Turkey Crackdown Chronicle: Week of September 18
September 19, 2016 10:26 AM ET
Taraf chief editor detained hours after release Hours after his release from prison, the writer and journalist Ahmet Altan was detained again. Altan turned himself in late last night and was arrested after hearing that he was wanted by...
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...
Journalists detained, beaten, obstructed in Istanbul
June 17, 2013 5:15 PM ET
Istanbul, June 17, 2013--Anti-press violence intensified in Istanbul on Sunday as police aggressively sought to obstruct reporters covering demonstrations against the government, according to news reports and CPJ interviews. The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on authorities to halt...