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Zaman newspaper columnists sentenced to prison
Four well-known columnists were retried after the Court of Cassation overturned a verdict against them in 2020.
30 November 2022
Journalist Nedim Türfent released after six and a half years in prison
The journalist was arrested in 2016 and was eventually convicted of "terror" crimes.
29 November 2022
Young man shot dead by police in Taksim
The 19-year-old Göktuğ Efe Yılmaz was shot dead by the police in Taksim, İstanbul, after a shootout.
28 November 2022
'A Look At the 20 Years of Media Freedom' report published
Assoc. Prof. Ulaş Karan has written an evaluation report titled "A Look At the 20 Years of Media Freedom" regarding the Media Monitoring Reports published by bianet/IPS Communication Foundation. The English version of the report has been published.
23 November 2022
Şebnem Korur-Fincancı: The truth makes us human
"Both the prosecutor and the judge thought that there was a contradiction between me first 'establishing the facts' and then saying it should be investigated," says the head of the Turkish Medical Association, who was arrested after her comments about the chemical warfare allegations against Türkiye.
23 November 2022
Ayça Söylemez
Amnesty International says 'justice prevails' after top court ruling in Büyükada case
"Today's ruling brings to an end a travesty of justice of spectacular proportions," said the group's secretary general.
22 November 2022
American Medical Association calls for action for Prof. Korur-Fincancı
Korur-Fincancı, head of the Turkish Medical Association, was arrested after her comments about the chemical warfare allegations against Türkiye.
22 November 2022
Man sentenced to aggravated life imprisonment over massacre of Kurdish family
Last year, Mehmet Altun stormed the Dedeoğulları family's house in the Meram district, and set fire to the house after shooting everyone inside.
18 November 2022
Diken news portal investigated over 'censorship' claims against AKP deputy
The broadcaster of the judicial year opening ceremony had stopped the broadcast while the head of the union of bars was speaking. The news portal claimed an AKP deputy was the "secret owner" of the company.
17 November 2022
Sixteen journalists imprisoned in Diyarbakır waiting for indictment for five months
According to Dicle Fırat Journalists Association Co-Chair Dicle Müftüoğlu, the preparation of the journalists' indictment is deliberately put on hold.
15 November 2022
Hikmet Adal
Türkiye's media laws under scrutiny after İstanbul bombing
Ambiguous laws and their arbitrary implementation led to Sunday's broad restrictions on traditional and social media, according to critics.
15 November 2022
Criminal complaint over racist writing on school stairs
Bar Association of Şırnak filed a criminal complaint about writings on the stairs of a secondary school in Bursa, one of which says "Either speak Turkish or keep quiet!"
14 November 2022
Türkiye imposes strict restrictions on media coverage, social media following explosion
The authorities have deployed several tools from imposing a broadcast ban to restricting the bandwidth of social media after the explosion that killed six people in İstanbul's popular tourist area of Taksim.
14 November 2022
Eighty years after Wealth Tax: 'Memories are silenced'
Today 80 years after the Wealth Tax, academics Özgür Kaymak and Işıl Demirel describe what the non-Muslim minorities lived through: "The issues were pushed aside or locked away completely because they hurt."
11 November 2022
Ece Deniz
Campaign against compulsory religion classes
Freedom of Belief Initiative in Türkiye started a campaign where they say "our lesson is not religion, but religions and beliefs."
10 November 2022
Detained after saying bread 'basic food for stupid societies,' union head remanded in custody
Cihan Kolivar had said, "Bread is basic food for stupid societies. Our society eats bread and therefore they have such rulers for as long as 20 years."
10 November 2022
bianet staff visits Mezopotamya Agency and JINNEWS for solidarity
Twenty-six journalists with the two Kurdish news agencies have been sent behind bars since June.
9 November 2022
UN experts call for urgent release of Prof. Korur-Fincancı
Korur-Fincancı, head of the Turkish Medical Association and a professor of forensic medicine, was detained on October 27 because of her comments about the chemical weapon use allegations against Türkiye.
9 November 2022
Court blocks access to reports about 'chemical attack' allegations
Two bianet reports are among the 22 blocked articles.
3 November 2022
Kaos GL sues RTÜK over hate rally public service announcement
In September, an anti LGBTI+ rally was held in İstanbul. The media authority had broadcast a video promotign the rally.
2 November 2022
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Study: Kurds in Türkiye think human rights situation worse than 90s
The results of a new study by Tahir Elçi Human Rights Foundation and Rawest show that Kurds living in different parts of Türkiye believe that mostly Kurds, women, children and poor are subjected to violations of human rights and that "the right to live" is a mostly violated right.
2 November 2022
Ruken Tuncel
The view from Diyarbakır: How Kurdish journalists see Türkiye's disinformation law
Despite their determination to stay on task, the threat of house raids is constantly in the back of Kurdish journalists' minds.
1 November 2022
Ingrid Woudwijk
Kurdish journalists left without computers after police raid
During the raids where 11 journalists were detained last week, the police also seized all the computers in the office jointly used by the Mezopotamya Agency and JINNEWS. Now, 10 journalists have only two computers.
1 November 2022
Hikmet Adal
Ill prisoner dies two months after release
Sentenced to life imprisonment, Ehettin Kaynar was hospitalized following his diagnosis of stage 4 cancer.
1 November 2022
Who are the nine arrested Kurdish journalists?
Detained during house raids across six cities, nine journalists working for Kurdish media outlets have been remanded in custody on suspicion of "being a member of a terrorist organization."
31 October 2022
Hikmet Adal
Inflation affects Türkiye's unprecedentedly high prison population
A prisoner says he had not turned himself in at the expense of at extended prison sentence so that he could save money to make ends meet while in prison.
28 October 2022
Rojan Mamo
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Now it's the time for 'disinformation' tactics to silence journalism
According to the BİA Media Monitoring Report of the July-August period, 126 media representatives faced trials. In the last three months, at least five media representatives, including three women and one LGBTI+, were detained. The most important agenda of the three months was the "Disinformation Law."
28 October 2022
Erol Önderoğlu
Türkiye to convert notorious prison of 1980s into museum
President Erdoğan announced that Diyarbakır prison, associated with cruel torture in the aftermath of 1980 coup, is closed and will be converted to a museum and a cultural center.
27 October 2022
Detained journalist 'waited for hours to breastfeed newborn baby'
"Also, a 48-day-old baby needs to be breastfed every 2 hours, but Zemo was able to breastfeed the baby six hours later," says the spouse of Zemo Ağgöz, who is one of the 11 Kurdish journalists who were detained in yesterday's raids.
26 October 2022
Ayşegül Özbek
Eleven journalists working for Kurdish outlets detained in 'terror' investigation
The police carried out raids in İstanbul and Ankara, as well as the Kurdish-majority provinces of Diyarbakır, Urfa, Van and Mardin early in the morning.
25 October 2022
İstanbul mayor calls for freedom for Gezi prisoners
Mayor of Istanbul, Ekrem İmamoğlu shared a video in a tweet with hashtag #GeziyeBinSelam and wrote "Justice will prevail, unlawfulness will end. We want freedom for my colleague Tayfun Kahraman and all Gezi prisoners."
24 October 2022
Pop singer Gülşen appears before court over 'religious schools joke'
Announcing its interim decision, the court ruled that Gülşen's international travel ban should continue.
21 October 2022
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