Journalists
Prosecutor releases ‘Fileleftheros’ journalists sued by Defence Minister Panos Kammenos
Three journalists working for the ‘Fileleftheros’ newspaper, who had been taken into custody based on a libel suit filed against them by Defence Minister Panos Kammenos, were on Sunday released at the orders of a public prosecutor.
Turkey: Rights Defenders, Journalists Jailed: New Crackdown Targets Activists for ‘Terrorism’
(Berlin, June 20, 2016) – An academic and two journalists who have played a key role in Turkey’s human rights movement have been jailed pending investigation into spurious allegations of spreading terrorist propaganda, Human Rights Watch said today. They should be released immediately and the investigation dropped.
Jailed Turkish journalists face multiple life sentences
New York, January 27, 2016 — Turkish prosecutors should immediately drop all charges against Can Dündar and Erdem Gül, journalists at the daily newspaper Cumhuriyet, and release them without delay, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today.
Report highlights Turkey’s troubled press freedom record
New York, November 2, 2015.- Turkish authorities should end impunity for attacks against journalists, decriminalize insult and defamation, stop harassing critical news outlets, and release imprisoned journalists, according to “Press Freedom in Turkey’s Inter-Election Period,” a report published Saturday by the Vienna-based International Press Institute.
CPJ: Turkish authorities target media in nationwide crackdown
New York, December 14, 2014—The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns today’s raids on media outlets in which police detained journalists and media workers on politicized anti-state charges. Among those detained today were Ekrem Dumanlı , editor-in-chief of Turkey’s largest daily Zaman, and Hidayet Karaca, chairman of the Samanyolu Broadcast Group, reports said.
Turkey Worst Jailer of Journalists for Second Year in a Row – CPJ releases annual prison census
New York.- For the second consecutive year, Turkey was the world’s leading jailer of journalists, followed closely by Iran and China. Together, the three countries accounted for more than half of all journalists imprisoned around the world, the Committee to Protect Journalists found.