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Abdullah Kaya, a former reporter for the shuttered Dicle News Agency (DİHA), is serving a four-year and two-month prison sentence for "being a member of a [terrorist] organization," according to news reports. A report published by the pro-Kurdish Mezopatanya News Agency in May 2018 said that evidence cited against Kaya included images he took during…
Seda Taşkın, a reporter for the pro-Kurdish Mezopotamya Agency, is serving a seven year and six month sentence on anti-state charges. Police first detained Taşkın on December 19, 2017, while she was reporting in the eastern Muş region, according to news reports. She was released on probation on December 24, according to the report. On January…
The 35th Istanbul Court of Serious Crimes on June 29, 2018, ordered Eren Erdem, a politician and journalist, to be imprisoned pending trial, according to reports. The state-owned Anatolia Agency reported on May 25 that the court accepted an indictment against Erdem. The charges against Erdem relate to his position as chief editor of the…
An Istanbul court on April 10, 2018 ordered Hicran Ürün, an editor at the pro-Kurdish newspaper Özgürlükçü Demokrasi, to be detained pending the outcome of a trial, along with Mehmet Ali Çelebi and Reyhan Hacıoğlu, who are also editors at the paper, according to reports. All three are of "being members of a [terrorist] organization,"…
An Istanbul court on April 10, 2018, ordered Reyhan Hacıoğlu, an editor at the pro-Kurdish newspaper Özgürlükçü Demokrasi, to be detained pending the outcome of a trial, along with Mehmet Ali Çelebi and Hicran Ürün, who are also editors at the paper, according to reports. All three are of "being members of a [terrorist] organization,"…
An Istanbul court on April 6, 2018 ordered İshak Yasul, the responsible news editor for the pro-Kurdish newspaper Özgürlükçü Demokrasi, and İhsan Yaşar, the paper’s publisher, to be detained pending an indictment being filed in their case, according to reports. The court order came after an early morning police raid on March 28, 2018, on…
An Istanbul court on April 10, 2018 ordered Mehmet Ali Çelebi, an editor at the pro-Kurdish newspaper Özgürlükçü Demokrasi, to be detained pending the outcome of a trial, along with Reyhan Hacıoğlu and Hicran Ürün, who are also editors at the paper, according to reports. All three are of "being members of a [terrorist] organization,"…
Istanbul police on March 28, 2018, detained İhsan Yaşar, the publisher of the pro-Kurdish newspaper Özgürlükçü Demokrasi, along with Kasım Zengin, the owner of Gün Printing House, which printed the paper, and at least eight printing house staff during an early morning raid on the Beyoğlu district building that houses the paper and printer, according…
Police detained İsminaz Temel, a reporter and editor for the socialist Etkin News Agency (ETHA), along with one of her colleagues and several socialist lawyers, politicians, and activists, in a series of raids in Istanbul on October 19, 2017, according to the independent news site Bianet. A court on October 26 ordered Temel and her colleague…
Murat Dağdeviren, a local journalist and former newspaper publisher from western Turkey, has been detained since July 2016. Authorities shuttered his outlet, Demokrat Gebze, and in 2017, sentenced Dağdeviren to more than seven years in prison. A court in the western Turkish province of Kocaeli convicted Dağdeviren of “being a member of a [terrorist] organization,”…