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Police detained Mustafa Kemal Güngör, a board member of the foundation that publishes the embattled opposition newspaper Cumhuriyet, after a raid of the newspaper’s main office in Istanbul on October 31, 2016, alongside at least 11 other staff members and board members. The Chief Prosecutor’s Office of Istanbul released an official statement soon after the…
Police detained Musa Kart, a cartoonist for the embattled pro-opposition newspaper Cumhuriyet, in a raid of the newspaper’s main office in Istanbul on October 31, 2016, alongside at least 11 other staff members and board members of the foundation that publishes it. The Chief Prosecutor’s Office of Istanbul released an official statement soon after the…
Police detained Hakan Kara, a board member of the foundation that publishes the embattled opposition newspaper Cumhuriyet, after a raid of the newspaper’s main office in Istanbul on October 31, 2016, alongside at least 11 other staff members and board members. The Chief Prosecutor’s Office of Istanbul released an official statement soon after the raid,…
Police detained Kadri Gürsel, a columnist and publishing consultant for the embattled opposition newspaper Cumhuriyet‘s literary supplement, in a raid of the newspaper’s main office in Istanbul on October 31, 2016, alongside at least 11 other staff members and board members of the foundation that publishes it. The Chief Prosecutor’s Office of Istanbul released an…
Police detained Güray Öz, a board member of the foundation that publishes the embattled opposition newspaper Cumhuriyet, after a raid of the newspaper’s main office in Istanbul on October 31, 2016, alongside at least 11 other staff members and board members. The Chief Prosecutor’s Office of Istanbul released an official statement soon after the raid,…
Police detained Bülent Utku, a board member of the foundation that publishes the embattled opposition newspaper Cumhuriyet, after a raid of the newspaper’s main office in Istanbul on October 31, 2016, alongside at least 11 other staff members and board members. The Chief Prosecutor’s Office of Istanbul released an official statement soon after the raid,…
Police detained Uğur, who covers the southern Turkish city of Mersin for the leftist daily Evrensel, on August 23, 2016, while he was reporting on a demonstration calling for the release of Abdullah Öcalan, the leader of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), which Turkey classes as a terrorist organization, CPJ reported at the time. On…
Alpay, a writer, linguist, and member of the shuttered daily newspaper Özgür Gündem‘s advisory board, was detained on August 31, 2016, after she testified to prosecutors in Istanbul. Istanbul’s Eighth Court for Serious Crimes arraigned her on the same day and ordered her held on terrorism and separatism charges stemming from the newspaper’s coverage on…
İnan Kızılkaya, the former news editor of the shuttered pro-Kurdish daily Özgür Gündem, faces 105 criminal cases, 103 of which had moved to trial by the end of 2016, on charges of terrorism, “disrupting the unity of the state,” insulting the Turkish nation, and insulting the president, according to his lawyer and court documents. If…
Police in Istanbul detained Bilir Kaya on August 16, 2016, in a raid on the, pro-Kurdish newspaper Özgür Gündem‘s office, the Committee to Protect Journalists reported at the time. Istanbul’s 10th Court of Penal Peace on August 22, 2016, arraigned Kaya, alongside Özgür Gündem‘s news editor, İnan Kızılkaya, on charges of being a member of…