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Alleged sympathies of the detained Turkish journalists between 2016 and 2019. Many journalists in Turkey are being persecuted and kept in jail all over the country. [1] Below is an extensive list of the prisoners, past and present. 231 journalists have been arrested after 15 July 2016 alone. [2]
The Turkey director at Human Rights Watch, Emma Sinclair-Webb, added to the criticism "In the absence of any evidence of their role or participation in the violent attempt to overthrow the government, we strongly condemn this accelerated assault on the media, which further undermines Turkey’s democratic credentials", she said.
Turkey detained over 800 social media users and nearly 100 politicians and journalists who opposed the Turkish invasion of the Kurdish-controlled enclave of Afrin. [ 149 ] On 8 July 2018, right before Erdogan new presidency with enlarged executive powers and the promised end of the state of emergency, 18,632 public officiers were dismissed by ...
A Turkish court on Tuesday jailed the chief editor of an opposition TV channel pending trial on a charge of spreading terrorist propaganda, state-owned Anadolu news agency reported. Police ...
Only few cases of journalists killed in Turkey between the foundation of the Republic and the military coup of 12 September 1980 were listed. Yet, some of these killings were high-profile assassinations that contributed to the atmosphere of political violence (often termed "civil war") that the Turkish army used as the main reason for its intervention.
The Committee to Protect Journalists condemned the arrest as part of a "relentless crackdown on the press" in Turkey. [7] Following the 2016 Turkish coup d'état attempt, further arrest warrants were issued by Turkish authorities, targeting Keneş and 46 other Zaman employees. [8]
Turkey's 2001 financial crisis further strengthened media owners' hands, as 3–5,000 journalists were fired, and the most troublesome ones targeted first. [12] Some themes have long remained quasi-taboo in the Turkish media, including the role of the Army, the Cyprus issue and the rights of the Kurdish and Armenian minorities.
This is a list of educational institutions that were shut down in the course of the 2016 Turkish purges.. On 23 July 2016, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan shut down 1,043 private schools, 1,229 charities and foundations, 19 trade unions, 15 universities and 35 medical institutions in his first emergency decree under the newly adopted emergency legislation.