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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]
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]
Aziz İstegün is a Turkish journalist who worked for Today's Zaman, and was imprisoned on charges of belonging to an alleged terrorist organisation run by exiled Turkish cleric Fethullah Gülen. İstegün's family are from Şanlıurfa. [1] İstegün was the Diyarbakır representative for Zaman newspaper.
Turkey is one of the world's top jailer of journalists and mainstream media is controlled by those close to President Tayyip Erdogan's government, with coverage favouring his administration.
Zaman (Turkish:, literally "time" or "era"), sometimes stylized as ZAMAN, was a daily newspaper in Turkey. Zaman was a major, high-circulation daily [3] before government seizure on 4 March 2016 (the circulation was around 650,000 as of February 2016 [4]). It was founded in 1986 and was the first Turkish daily to go online in 1995. [5]
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.
Afterwards, he continued the same work for the newspaper Today's Zaman. In 2011, Bozkurt defended the imprisonment of journalists in the Ergenekon investigation stating that journalists like Ahmet Şık were not being an investigative journalist conducting "independent research", but was hatching "a plot designed and put into action by the ...
Established on 17 January 2007, it was the English-language edition of the Turkish daily Zaman. Today's Zaman included domestic and international coverage, and regularly published topical supplements. Its contributors included cartoonist Cem Kızıltuğ. On 4 March 2016, a state administrator was appointed to run Zaman as well as Today's Zaman. [2]