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Journalist Ahmet Şık Back in Silivri After 5 Years

Journalist Ahmet Şık Back in Silivri After 5 Years

Journalist Ahmet Şık was sent to Silivri Prison from Metris Prison two days ago.

Journalist Ahmet Şık Arrested Again

Journalist Ahmet Şık Arrested Again

Journalist Ahmet Şık has been arrested by İstanbul Criminal Judgeship of Peace on ground of “propagandizing for FETÖ and PKK”.

31 December 2016

A Free New Year for Journalists

A Free New Year for Journalists

Coming together upon call from the initiative "I am a journalist", over 100 journalists including representatives from press organizations have sent a joint new year message to their colleagues in prison who don't have their letters delivered. (Photograph: Özcan Yaman)

31 December 2016

Journalist Ahmet Şık Taken Into Custody

Journalist Ahmet Şık Taken Into Custody

Journalist Ahmet Şık was taken into custody in his apartment by police this morning.

29 December 2016

ANF News Reporter Maxime Demiralp Arrested

ANF News Reporter Maxime Demiralp Arrested

Taken into custody in Brussels on December 15, director of Fırat News Agency, Maxime Demiralp has been arrested.

21 December 2016

Police Violence against bianet Reporter to be Brought to Constitutional Court

Police Violence against bianet Reporter to be Brought to Constitutional Court

Attorneys will apply to the Constitutional Court after their objection to verdict of non-prosecution for the police officers, who beat and handcuffed bianet reporter Kural from behind on November 6, 2015, was rejected.

16 December 2016

Closed Radio, TV Channels Come Together: There is 1 Report

Closed Radio, TV Channels Come Together: There is 1 Report

Staff of four TV and seven radio channels closed by Statutory Decrees have come together and established 1 Haber Var (There is 1 Report) Platform.

9 December 2016

Protest on Twitter, in Silivri: #FreeTurkeyJournalists

Protest on Twitter, in Silivri: #FreeTurkeyJournalists

Press trade bodies outlets from Turkey and all over the world will share messages with the hashtags #GazetecilikSuçDeğildir and #FreeTurkeyJournalists in order to draw attention to arrested journalists. A demonstration will be organized in front of Silivri Prison on December 10.

9 December 2016

Attack on Yeni Çağ Daily Building

Attack on Yeni Çağ Daily Building

An attack has been carried out on headquarters of Yeni Çağ daily, which supports opposition wing in the Nationalist Movement Party.

9 December 2016

Balance Sheet of State of Emergency

Balance Sheet of State of Emergency

177 media outlets have been closed in total as part of three Statutory Decrees put into effect during the State of Emergency, 11 of them reopened. Balance sheet of unemployment has reached 2,500.

7 December 2016 Elif Akgül

Call from Caricaturists All Around the World: Free Musa Kart

Call from Caricaturists All Around the World: Free Musa Kart

CRNI has called for the release of caricaturist Musa Kart, who is Cumhuriyet Foundation Board Member and has been under arrest over 32 days

6 December 2016

Can Dündar’s Permanent Press Card Renewal Request Denied

Can Dündar’s Permanent Press Card Renewal Request Denied

Directorate General of Press and Information has denied Can Dündar’s request of renewal of his permanent press card due to “national security policy”.

1 December 2016

Erol Önderoğlu Receives SEEMO Award For Better Understanding in South East Europe

Erol Önderoğlu Receives SEEMO Award For Better Understanding in South East Europe

Dr. Erhard Busek - SEEMO Award for Better Understanding in South, East and Central Europe has been granted to bianet rapporteur and RSF Turkey representative Erol Önderoğlu.

25 November 2016

Dündar, Gül Receive German PEN’s Hermann Kesten Prize

Dündar, Gül Receive German PEN’s Hermann Kesten Prize

PEN Germany has granted Hermann Kesten Prize to the journalists Can Dündar and Erdem Gül, and the Hermann Kesten Support Award to the “Translate for Justice”! platform.

18 November 2016 Gürsel Köksal

Özgür Gündem Columnist Şaban İba Taken into Custody

Özgür Gündem Columnist Şaban İba Taken into Custody

Columnist of the closed Özgür Gündem daily, Şaban Iba has been taken into custody in his apartment in Edremit District of Balıkesir in a house raid carried out by gendarmerie.

17 November 2016

Message of Solidarity From Margaret Atwood to Aslı Erdoğan on PEN’s Day of The Imprisoned Writer

Message of Solidarity From Margaret Atwood to Aslı Erdoğan on PEN’s Day of The Imprisoned Writer

This year, PEN International on the Day of the Imprisoned Writer, has drawn attention to five writers in prison around the World including Aslı Erdoğan from Turkey to whom Margaret Atwood has written a letter of solidarity.

15 November 2016

Tally of Legal Actions Against Özgür Gündem Editors on Watch

Tally of Legal Actions Against Özgür Gündem Editors on Watch

Of the Özgür Gündem Editor on Watch campaign participants, 50 have been subjected to investigations, against 36 others charges have been pressed, verdict of non-prosecution has been announced for 11 participants and one case has been dropped.

15 November 2016 Elif Akgül

French Journalist Bertrand Deported

French Journalist Bertrand Deported

Taken into custody in Antep on Friday evening, French journalist Oliver Bertrand has been deported.

14 November 2016

Attorney Levent Pişkin in Custody

Attorney Levent Pişkin in Custody

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

14 November 2016

Cumhuriyet’s Akın Atalay Detained

Cumhuriyet’s Akın Atalay Detained

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

11 November 2016

Korur Fincancı, Önderoğlu Appear Before Judge

Korur Fincancı, Önderoğlu Appear Before Judge

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.

9 November 2016

‘Solidarity with Özgür Gündem is Objection to Current Situation’

‘Solidarity with Özgür Gündem is Objection to Current Situation’

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

7 November 2016

Journalist Nadire Mater Stands Trial

Journalist Nadire Mater Stands Trial

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.

7 November 2016 Çiçek Tahaoğlu

Investigation into Pehlivan Over His Report on Prosecutor Looking into Cumhuriyet Case

Investigation into Pehlivan Over His Report on Prosecutor Looking into Cumhuriyet Case

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.

3 November 2016

RSF Places Erdoğan on List of Predator of Press Freedom

RSF Places Erdoğan on List of Predator of Press Freedom

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.

2 November 2016

DİHA Ankara Office Red Tagged, Parrot 'Tolaz' Locked In

DİHA Ankara Office Red Tagged, Parrot 'Tolaz' Locked In

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

1 November 2016 Beyza Kural

Images From Solidarity Demonstration for Cumhuriyet daily

Images From Solidarity Demonstration for Cumhuriyet daily

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

1 November 2016

Support Letter From Aslı Erdoğan, Necmiye Alpay to Cumhuriyet daily

Support Letter From Aslı Erdoğan, Necmiye Alpay to Cumhuriyet daily

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

1 November 2016

Head of IPI Turkey Committee Kadri Gürsel Detained in Operation on Cumhuriyet Daily

Head of IPI Turkey Committee Kadri Gürsel Detained in Operation on Cumhuriyet Daily

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.

31 October 2016

Operation in Cumhuriyet Daily, Some Taken into Custody

Operation in Cumhuriyet Daily, Some Taken into Custody

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.

31 October 2016

New Statutory Decrees Issued, 10 Newspapers, 2 News Agencies, 3 Magazines Closed

New Statutory Decrees Issued, 10 Newspapers, 2 News Agencies, 3 Magazines Closed

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

31 October 2016

Operation on Cumhuriyet Daily, 16 Taken into Custody

Operation on Cumhuriyet Daily, 16 Taken into Custody

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.

31 October 2016