Dismissed from Hürriyet newspaper because they joined the Journalists’ Union of Turkey (TGS), journalists have been waging a legal struggle to get their severance pay.

Australia’s PEN Melbourne center has announced that journalist Nedim Türfent has been granted honorary membership. Sending a message from prison, the journalist has thanked for "the honor erasing the borders desired to be set by hegemons."

In two weeks, two news articles and one news portal were banned, three TV outlets were fined and the trials of 10 journalists continued.

While the share of households with a fixed internet connection increased by about 12 percent in a year, over 38 percent still don't have one.

The chief topic of the Fazana Media Festival in Croatia was the developments in the media in the Balkans and Turkey. The general assembly of the SEENPM was also held at the festival attended by nearly 70 professionals. Erol Önderoğlu from bianet was elected to the board of directors.

After court orders issued to two news portals turned out to be fake, an opposition deputy has brought the issue to the parliamentary agenda.

The Hate Speech Digital Archive consists of nearly 16,500 news reports and columns that were detected by monitoring the printed press for 10 years.

The reporter said he was going to ask the spokesperson about the recent confessions by a former AKP minister about a 2013 corruption investigation.

Backed by Reporters Without Borders (RSF), Botan International has established a Kurdish media education office and sound studio in Turkey’s Kurdish-majority southeastern province of Diyarbakır.

The journalist has said that he reported on officers who committed an offense and are being investigated.

Journalism organizations have held a protest in front of the TRT İstanbul Radio, demanding the reinstatement of Deniz Selmanlı, who had worked for the broadcaster for 22 years.

The government is reportedly working to introduce prison sentences for spreading fake news on social media and a regulatory body for social media platforms.