Attorney and LGBTI activist Levent Pişkin taken into custody in a house raid is expected to be sent to Bursa.

Cumhuriyet Newspaper Executive Board President Akın Atalay has been detained at Atatürk Airport where Atalay returned from abroad.

First hearing of the trial in which Şebnem Korur Fincancı, Erol Önderoğlu and Ahmet Nesin have been tried within the scope of the Özgür Gündem’s editor-in-chief on watch campaign was held yesterday.

I don't accept restrictions on people's right to information and limitations for citizens and journalists on making reports.

In her testimony before İstanbul 22nd Criminal Court, journalist Nadire Mater who had participated in the “Editor-in-Chief on Watch” campaign launched in support of the Özgür Gündem daily said “Solidarity with Özgür Gündem is also an objection to the current situation”. The next hearing will be on December 9, at 2.15 p.m.

A probe has been launched into journalist Barış Pehlivan over his report claiming that the prosecutor running the operation carried out into Cumhuriyet daily is being tried in FETÖ investigation.

Erdoğan has taken place in RSF’s list of “Predator of Press Freedom”. Turkey was lastly on the list in 2002 with former Chief of General Staff Hüseyin Kıvrıkoğlu.

Sealing the door of DİHA Ankara Office, the teams have locked the Parrot "Tolaz" in. DİHA workers are trying to get the parrot out.

Readers of Cumhuriyet daily, its journalists and many others have advocated the "right to information" in a demonstration.

Aslı Erdoğan and Necmiye Alpay both arrested in the investigation into Özgür Gündem daily, have sent Cumhuriyet daily a letter of support.

IPI Executive Board Member and Cumhuriyet daily's Editorial Consultant, journalist and columnist Kadri Gürsel has also been taken into custody in the operation on Cumhuriyet daily.

Police has raided the houses of Cumhuriyet Daily Ediyor-in-Chief Murat Sabuncu, President of the Execution Board Akın Atalay and Cumuhuriyet Foundation Executive Board member and columnist Güray Öz. Sabuncu and Öz have been taken into custody.

10 newspapers, two news agencies, three magazines have been closed including Evrensel Kültür, Tîroj, Özgürlük Dünyası, DİHA ve Azadiya Welat by the Statutory Decree No. 675

Police has raided the houses of Cumhuriyet Daily Ediyor-in-Chief Murat Sabuncu, President of the Execution Board Akın Atalay and Cumuhuriyet Foundation Executive Board member and columnist Güray Öz. Sabuncu and Öz have been taken into custody.

The results of the joint project "Media Ownership Monitor (MOM) Turkey" run by IPS Communication Foundation/ bianet and Reporter ohne Grenzen, the German wing of RSF (Reporters without Borders) were presented at a press conference.

IPS Communication Foundation / bianet and Reporter Ohne Grenzen, German wing of RSF, will present the results of their joint project “Media Ownership Monitor” in the meeting “Who Owns the Media?”.

There has been an internet outage in Diyarbakır, Mardin, Batman, Siirt, Van, Elazığ, Dersim, Antep, Urfa, Kilis and Adıyaman provinces. There had also been a similar outage as trustees were appointed to DBP municipalities earlier.

Five people taken into custody in Muş province including DİHA correspondent İdris Sayılgan and provincial executives from DBP and HDP have been arrested. That way, the number of arrested journalists and writers rose to 2016.

Of 107 arrested journalists, 71 are from Gülen Community, 29 others from Kurdish Media. 155 media organs have been closed down, 775 press cards and 49 passports revoked.

Killings, imprisonments and other methods to silence journalists happens all too often, in Europe as elsewhere in the world. In this editorial, Mogens Blicher Bjerregård* highlights the importance of being on the side of those who are threatened.