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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]
Turkish journalists Can Dündar and Erdem Gül were arrested facing sentences up to life imprisonment. On 4 October 2016, Turkish authorities suspend nearly 12,800 more police officers from duty over their suspected links with U.S.-based cleric Fethullah Gulen .
The Turkish government justified the arrests for security reasons and said the journalists were being investigated and prosecuted for participating in criminal activities. [18] On August 27, the Platform for Independent Journalism (P24), a press freedom group, said the number of journalists arrested since the coup was 108. [19]
Turkish journalist Tolga Sardan was released from prison on Monday pending trial after he was jailed under the so-called "disinformation law", a court document shared by his lawyers showed. The ...
In February 2017, German-Turkish journalist Deniz Yücel was jailed in Istanbul. [107] [108] [109] On April 10, 2017, the Italian journalist Gabriele Del Grande was arrested in Hatay and jailed in Mugla. [110] He was in Turkey in order to write a book on the war in Syria. He went on hunger strike on April 18, 2017. [110]
[10] [11] Arrested in 2016 for supporting Ozgur Gundem, a Kurdish newspaper, and accused of supporting terrorists. [12] Baskin Oran, former member of the Human Rights Advisory Board (HRAB) for the Turkish Prime Minister's office, charged in May 2006 with "public humiliation of the courts authority" and "dangerous incitement of public hatred and ...
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U.S. authorities on Friday arrested a Turkish author and her 16-year-old son wanted by Turkey on charges he was involved in a fatal car crash in Istanbul then fled the country with the help of his ...