The MFRR recorded 71 press freedom violations in Turkey in the first half of the year, which involved 171 attacked persons or media entities.

"Because I'm a 70+ youngster, 'my actions that may harm national security' were punished by Fahrettin Altun and his team," said the journalist.

The Radio and Television Supreme Council has concluded that the Halk TV pundits made comments "serving the purposes of terrorism."

The scenes where "two girls were kissing each other" in the "Jurassic Park Camp Cretaceous" series violated the "principle of the protection of general morality and family," the council concluded.

"We are determined not to allow content that may negatively impact our children and youth and that disregard our values," said the head of Türkiye's media authority.

The amount of money channeled to newspapers and magazines through public ads increased by 34 percent, TurkStat figures show.

Sentenced to 1 year, 6 months, 22 days in prison for “terror propaganda”, Abdurrahman Gök said in his defense, “Would I be on trial after 8 years if I had written under the related pictures that they were taken in Libya or Azerbaijan rather than Kobanî?”

The government intends to establish a censorship mechanism for online news media, according to the Journalists' Federation of Turkey.

The bill will not solve the disinformation problem but will only aggravate censorship, the groups have said in a joint statement.

Upon the lawsuit filed by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's son-in-law, Selçuk Bayraktar, and his brother, Haluk Bayraktar, against BirGün, a compensation decision was given for a news article.

The Council of State has rejected the appeals of the Minister of Interior and General Director of Security and annulled the ban

According to the BİA Media Monitoring Report, at least six journalists and one media outlet were attacked and Ses Kocaeli Newspaper’s owner Arslan was killed in an armed attack in the first 3 months of 2022. Happy World Press Freedom Day!

Accepting the request of the SPK and BDDK lawyers for additional time, the court adjourned the case until April 29.

“Despite the conditions of repression and violence, Kurdish journalism goes along on its path, never making any concessions from the path or tradition of struggle created by journalists such as Mîqdat Mîdhed Bedirxa and Musa Anter,” says HDP MP Temel.

On the grounds that Amed Radyo TV allegedly did not send its statement of business income, it is now fined 12,804 lira by the Radio and Television Supreme Council.

İbrahim Haskoloğlu shared images of ID cards allegedly belonging to the president and the intelligence chief, which were later revealed to be fake.

The Radio and Television Supreme Council previously asked the Turkish services of the three outlets to get a license to continue operating in Turkey.

Göktepe was killed by police officers while he was working. During the ceremony of the journalism awards named after him, a former colleague of his gave the vest to his mother.

The exhibition shedding light on the relationship between mass communication tools and arts can be visited at İstanbul's Pera Museum until August 7.

The RTÜK received over 44,000 complaints from citizens in a year. The most common reason for the complaints was about "violation of general morality."