content tagged with arrest of journalists

After a trustee has been appointed to Özgürlükçü Demokrasi newspaper, its grant holder İhsan Yaşar and managing editor İshak Yasul have been arrested.

BirGün columnist Barış İnce has been sentenced to 21 months of prison for his acrostic plea in the suit brought on charge of defaming President Erdoğan and his son Bilal Erdoğan. The penalty hasn’t been suspended.

Thousands gathered in Istanbul and Ankara, protesting the arrest of journalists in relation to the infamous KCK operations. Journalists, MPs, rights activists, union leaders condemn the latest police operation as the final nail on the coffin of freedom of expression in Turkey.

Perrier, Vigoureux and de Banville, theree French journalists who were detained during border pass have been released, but their camera is seized as "instrument of crime".