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Mehmet Güleş, a former reporter for the now shuttered pro-Kurdish news agencies DİHA and Dihaber, is serving over nine years in prison. In 2019, the journalist reported health problems related to a hunger strike, but he refused hospital treatment because he would have to wear handcuffs. Police in Turkey’s eastern Elazığ province detained Güleş…
Police on February 14, 2017, detained Deniz Yücel, the Turkey correspondent for the German newspaper Die Welt, according to Turkish and German news reports. An Istanbul court on February 27 ordered Yücel to be jailed pending investigation into claims of “propagandizing for a [terrorist] organization” and “provoking the people to hatred and animosity,” the daily…
Muhammet Sait Kuloğlu, the founder and publisher of news website Subuhaber, is one of several journalists imprisoned after the failed 2016 coup attempt. He is serving seven and a half years in prison after being convicted of being a member of a terrorist organization. The Supreme Court of Appeals upheld his conviction in March 2020….
Hanım Büşra Erdal, a former columnist and court reporter for the shuttered daily newspaper Zaman, is one of several journalists imprisoned after the failed 2016 coup attempt. In 2018 she was found guilty of being a member of a terrorist organization. The Supreme Court of Appeals upheld her conviction in March 2020. Police on July…
Police in Istanbul on July 25, 2016, detained Halil İbrahim Balta–a business reporter for the daily newspaper Yarına Bakış who previously worked with the shuttered daily newspaper Zaman–as part of a sweeping purge of suspected followers of exiled preacher Fethullah Gülen. The Turkish government accuses Gülen of maintaining a terrorist organization and “parallel state structure”…
Cuma Ulus, a former news editor for the shuttered daily newspaper Millet, is one of several journalists imprisoned after the failed 2016 coup attempt. He has twice been charged in joint trials. In 2018, he was acquitted of charges that linked him to the coup attempt, but found guilty of being a member of a…
Mümtaz’er Türköne, a former columnist for the shuttered daily Zaman, is serving over 10 years in prison after being convicted of “being a member of a terrorist organization.” The journalist needs surgery for a heart condition, but has delayed the procedure because of concerns about being able to recuperate safely in prison. Police in the…
Police detained Şahin Alpay, a then 72-year-old former columnist for the shuttered newspaper Zaman, at his home early in the morning of July 27, 2016, CPJ reported at the time. The court arraigned him and codefendants and fellow former Zaman journalists Ali Bulaç, Ahmet Turan Alkan, and Mustafa Ünal on charges of being members of…
Mustafa Ünal, a former reporter for the shuttered Turkish daily Zaman, was arrested shortly after the failed attempted coup of 2016, and found guilty of “being a member of a [terrorist] organization.” The journalist, who denies any involvement in the coup, is serving a 10-year, six-month prison sentence. Police detained Ünal at his home in Ankara…
Faruk Akkan, the general director of the shuttered Cihan News Agency, was arrested shortly after a failed Turkish coup attempt in 2016 and was convicted for allegedly being a member of a terrorist organization. Akkan, who denies involvement in the coup, is serving a nine-year prison sentence. Police detained Akkan at his home in Istanbul…