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Journalist Ozan Kaplanoğlu imprisoned over 2013 conviction for insulting Erdoğan

Journalist Ozan Kaplanoğlu imprisoned over 2013 conviction for insulting Erdoğan

Kaplanoğlu has been sent to prison after a conditional release decision was revoked.

18 February 2025

Turkey’s largest journalists' union fails to reach deal with nine outlets in collective bargaining talks

Turkey’s largest journalists' union fails to reach deal with nine outlets in collective bargaining talks

The Journalists’ Union of Turkey criticized media employers for proposing wage increases below the inflation rate.

14 February 2025

TV anchor Özlem Gürses released from house arrest after 52 days

TV anchor Özlem Gürses released from house arrest after 52 days

Gürses was hosting her weekday morning program on Sözcü TV from a mini studio set up in her home.

12 February 2025

Local journalism: Pursuing truth under pressure

Local journalism: Pursuing truth under pressure

Local journalism demands a relentless struggle against economic hardships, political pressures, threats, and judicial harassment.

7 February 2025 Serra Taylan

Journalist Merdan Yanardağ acquitted in trial over assassination claim

Journalist Merdan Yanardağ acquitted in trial over assassination claim

Ahead of the 2023 presidential election, Yanardağ raised claims of an assassination plot targeting the main opposition candidate.

5 February 2025

Assurance of our right to know: Freedom of expression and journalists

Assurance of our right to know: Freedom of expression and journalists

Freedom of expression is one of the main means of making human rights violations visible, as well as their perpetrators, planners and those who protect those responsible. For these reasons, those in power are not happy with the full exercise of freedom of expression.

4 February 2025 Osman İşçi

Halk TV chief editor arrested in 'expert witness' investigation

Halk TV chief editor arrested in 'expert witness' investigation

The pro-opposition broadcaster's interview with an expert witness reportedly involved in multiple investigations targeting opposition-run municipalities in İstanbul led to the arrest of its editor-in-chief.

30 January 2025

Three Halk TV journalists detained over broadcast of court expert’s phone call

Three Halk TV journalists detained over broadcast of court expert’s phone call

A pro-government newspaper had also interviewed the same expert, said Barış Pehlivan, one of the detained journalists.

29 January 2025

Siirt co-mayor sentenced to prison over past journalism activities

Siirt co-mayor sentenced to prison over past journalism activities

Sofya Alağaş, a former manager for a pro-Kurdish news agency, has been sentenced in connection with the agency's reporting.

28 January 2025

Medine Mamedoğlu

Journalism amid male-state violence: Keep writing!

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Journalism amid male-state violence: Keep writing!

The many challenges that come with being Kurdish, being a woman, and being a journalist—which my women colleagues will understand all too well—have not diminished in the past ten years.

22 December 2024 Medine Mamedoğlu

Two Kurdish journalists killed in suspected Turkish drone strike in northern Syria

Two Kurdish journalists killed in suspected Turkish drone strike in northern Syria

Nazım Daştan and Cihan Bilgin were covering the clashes between Turkey-backed groups and Kurdish foces.

20 December 2024

Opposition leader’s bodyguards assault journalists in Çorum

Opposition leader’s bodyguards assault journalists in Çorum

Musavat Dervişoğlu's security team attempted to prevent some journalists from covering an event where he met with party members.

16 December 2024

Barış Terkoğlu

Journalism that will make us say 'it was worth it'

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Journalism that will make us say 'it was worth it'

Imprisonment, isolation, unemployment, threats, bans, censorship... This is a summary of what I’ve gone through. Yet, I remain hopeful, both for journalism and for my country. Despite everything, the generation I belong to does not give up on writing, reporting, and speaking out.

9 December 2024 Barış Terkoğlu

Study reveals journalists in Turkey living at hunger threshold

Study reveals journalists in Turkey living at hunger threshold

The average salary in the media sector is just 28% above the minimum wage.

9 December 2024

İnan Kızılkaya

Journalism: Self-defense of society

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Journalism: Self-defense of society

Since the matter at hand was news, you could have asked me about it, and I would have defended it. But I didn’t hear a single question related to any news report in any hearing. No question or accusation was made based on the data of any published article.

6 December 2024 İnan Kızılkaya

Two arrested, bianet reporter Tuğçe Yılmaz, others released in investigation targeting pro-Kurdish media

Two arrested, bianet reporter Tuğçe Yılmaz, others released in investigation targeting pro-Kurdish media

Hamza Kaan and Mehmet Uçar, a teacher and a journalist were formally arrested while 16 detained individuals were released.

29 November 2024

Press freedom organizations denounce detention of journalists

Press freedom organizations denounce detention of journalists

The organizations criticized the confidentiality order placed on the investigation, which has so far led to the detention of nine journalists among others.

28 November 2024

Detention period for nine journalists extended for one day

Detention period for nine journalists extended for one day

Eighteen individuals, including nine journalists, have been detained in an investigation.

27 November 2024

Journalist Erdoğan Alayumat strip-searched in police custody

Journalist Erdoğan Alayumat strip-searched in police custody

“We will continue to show that journalism is not a crime, no matter where we are. We will persist until those in power understand this,” Alyumat said in a message conveyed through his attorneys.

27 November 2024

Turkish-Cypriot journalist faces 10 years in jail over article on Turkey's alleged election interference

Turkish-Cypriot journalist faces 10 years in jail over article on Turkey's alleged election interference

Journalism groups and political parties have expressed support for Ali Kişmir ahead of his trial.

25 November 2024

Canadian journalist Neil Hauer denied entry to Turkey

Canadian journalist Neil Hauer denied entry to Turkey

The Armenia-based journalist suggested that the entry ban might be related to his reporting on Azerbaijan’s actions in Nagorno-Karabakh.

25 November 2024

Journalists face disinformation probe after gold smuggling allegations against MPs

Journalists face disinformation probe after gold smuggling allegations against MPs

Well-known journalists Fatih Altaylı and İsmail Saymaz are under investigation for reporting on the “gold smuggling” allegations into the former MHP deputies. Party officials have provided no details but made implicit statements about “abusing power.”

22 November 2024

Court orders release of journalist Furkan Karabay

Court orders release of journalist Furkan Karabay

Karabay was arrested last week after his critical reporting and social media posts about İstanbul's chief prosecutor.

18 November 2024

The digital darkness of suppression

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The digital darkness of suppression

Many corporations now aspire to be untouchable, deeply disturbed by their mistakes being exposed to the public or reported in the media.

17 November 2024 Çiğdem Toker

The persistence in journalism

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The persistence in journalism

They are carrying out a memory-wiping operation, erasing our reports to cover up their wrongdoings. And in doing so, they leave behind scandals that are as glaring as the actions they attempt to hide...

16 November 2024 İsmail Arı

Journalist Gözde Bedeloğlu fined for remarks on MHP deputy in opinion piece

Journalist Gözde Bedeloğlu fined for remarks on MHP deputy in opinion piece

Bedeloğlu had questioned the renomination of a nationalist deputy ahead of the 2023 election.

12 November 2024

Journalist Pınar Gayıp detained

Journalist Pınar Gayıp detained

A lawyer who was convicted of sexual assault has filed numerous complaints against the journalist after she reported on the sexual assault allegations against him.

14 October 2024

Bahçeli threatens journalists over former Grey Wolves leader’s murder case

Bahçeli threatens journalists over former Grey Wolves leader’s murder case

The nationalist leader accuses the opposition and the media of unfairly linking his party to the murder of Sinan Ateş.

Prosecutor declines to take Kurdish journalist’s testimony despite home raid, arrest warrant

Prosecutor declines to take Kurdish journalist’s testimony despite home raid, arrest warrant

Rabia Önver, who wasn’t at home during a Sep 20 raid on her home, went to the courthouse to provide a statement. The prosecutor declined to take her testimony.

25 September 2024

Journalist faces disinformation charges after reporting on alleged ‘state-linked’ criminal gang

Journalist faces disinformation charges after reporting on alleged ‘state-linked’ criminal gang

Rabia Önver faces an arrest warrant and an order for the seizure of her digital equipment following her coverage of recent criminal activities in the Kurdish-populated city of Hakkari.

24 September 2024

Kurdish journalist’s home raided following report on alleged police-gang collusion in Hakkari

Kurdish journalist’s home raided following report on alleged police-gang collusion in Hakkari

Rabia Önver reported on a criminal gang in Hakkari, which allegedly coerces young women into drug use and prostitution and while authorities turn a blind eye.

23 September 2024

Diyarbakır grants free public transport to journalists

Diyarbakır grants free public transport to journalists

Journalists working for both national and local media outlets will be able to travel on the municipality’s public transport network free of charge.

16 September 2024

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