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The chief public prosecutor’s office has given a decision of non-prosecution for journalist Oktay Candemir, who was investigated over a tweet critical of TV series about the Ottoman times.

Journalist Oktay Candemir has been released on probation after he was taken into custody over a social media post about the “Resurrection: Ertuğrul” television series centering around the life of Ertuğrul, the father of the founder of Ottoman Empire.

Payzın has been targeted by the ruling AKP's ally after a comment on the MHP chair's remarks on Victory Day.

Capturing police violence against a person in Athens, journalists Çağdaş Kaplan and Berçem Mordeniz have been battered and taken into custody.

Taken into custody while reporting trustee protests in Mardin on August 20, five journalists have been released.

Journalists and lawyers have gathered at the İstanbul Courthouse to protest the approval of the sentences in the trial of Cumhuriyet newspaper.

31 journalists have been nominated as MP candidates by seven political parties for the June 24 Parliamentary election.

We release the video recorded by bianet reporter Beyza Kural showing police threaten her.

BirGün newspaper journalist İnce on trial for insulting then PM Erdoğan and son Bilal Erdoğan has been fined 10,620 TL for “offending persons’ honor, reputation and respectability”. The court did not abate the sentence because İnce was not seen to “show regret”.

Journalist Kemal Göktaş told that the incident of torture in Karabağlar district of İzmir province was covered and stated that he refused the postponement of his sentence in case there will be a punishment.

Cenap Kürümoğlu, a local newspaper owner, has been battered by two unidentified individuals this morning.

Captured Turkish journalist Cüneyt Ünal was released in Syria, while his colleague Bashar Fahmi Kadumi's whereabouts are still unknown.