What is the main offense that the Cemaat (Hizmet movement) has committed?
Ahmet Hakan, Hürriyet Those police officers who carried out the operation are so incompetent… They helped the perception that “Fuat Avni” [a deep throat within the government who is disclosing the...
View ArticleNo return from democracy, Zaman editor Dumanlı says under detention
Ekrem Dumanlı, the editor-in-chief of Turkey's most circulated paper, the Zaman daily, emphasized his strong belief in democracy on the third day of his detention in an unprecedented government-backed...
View ArticleDetention turns into punishment of journalists
The detention of two prominent journalists, which has already been extended unnecessarily, was marred by due process violations, turning the process into a punishment by itself. The...
View ArticleQuestions and answers in Tahşiye group debate
Bülent KorucuWhat are the charges against Ekrem Dumanlı, Hidayet Karaca and other journalists? a) Seizing the sovereignty of the state: There is no such crime defined by law; instead, there are...
View ArticleWhat is happening in Turkey?
Emre Uslu Turkey again attracts attention in the world as a country where press freedom is controversial. The Zaman daily's Editor-in-chief Ekrem Dumanlı and Samanyolu TV's head Hidayet Karaca have...
View ArticleGülen says many would like to be in detained journalists’ shoes
Turkish Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen has said he believes many people, including he himself, would like to be in the shoes of Zaman daily Editor-in-Chief Ekrem Dumanlı and Samanyolu Broadcasting...
View ArticleDetained Turkish Journalists Follow Teachings of US-based Preacher
When around 20 journalists in Turkey from the Zaman newspaper and Samanyolu TV were detained earlier this week because of ties to a U.S.-based Turkish preacher, a supposedly official arrest list that...
View ArticleUS senators express concern over crackdown on media in Turkey
The Turkish government's crackdown on the media with the detention of several journalists has been met with harsh reactions in the US, with several US senators expressing concern about Turkey's...
View ArticleTurkey’s media crackdown: World reactions in quotes
The detention of prominent journalists known for taking a critical stance on the Turkish government from Zaman, the most circulated daily in Turkey, and Samanyolu, a major television broadcaster, has...
View ArticleJournalism now a crime under Erdoğan dictatorship
Bülent Korucu On Dec. 14, 2014, an incident unlike any we've seen previously in Turkey took place: The police raided the offices of Zaman -- the country's best-selling daily newspaper -- arresting the...
View ArticleChomsky says media crackdown ’very serious attack on press’
World-renowned philosopher and linguist Noam Chomsky has slammed Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan over government-orchestrated arrests of journalists, warning that Turkey is going toward a more...
View ArticleWhy the case against these journalists is so suspicious
Orhan Kemal Cengiz Governmental circles and their supporters in the media say “journalists are not immune from committing crimes.” There is no doubt about that. Of course journalists may commit crimes....
View ArticleUS congressmen ask Kerry to press Turkey on media freedom
Several members of the US Congress have expressed their concerns over the arrest of journalists in Turkey, asking US Secretary of State John Kerry to press Turkey over its violation of democracy. Rep....
View ArticleSet journalists free now!
Prosecutors claim Zaman and Samanyolu journalists contributed to an alleged legal plot against a group with suspected ties to al-Qaeda through their intellectual work. They are accused of receiving...
View ArticleTurkey is becoming a ‘party state’
Suat Kınıklıoğlu The detention of dozens of journalists on Dec. 14 signifies a new level of escalation in the Turkish government's drive to suppress the graft allegations from Dec. 17-25, 2013. For...
View ArticleWho let the dogs out?
Günal Kurşun There is an anecdote told by some old grandfathers in Turkey who are rare because they are not very nationalistic. Three good friends -- a Turk, a Kurd and an Armenian -- were walking near...
View ArticleZaman daily’s chief editor charged under anti-terror laws for doing his job
As part of an intensified government campaign of cracking down on critical and independent media outlets in Turkey, Ekrem Dumanlı, the editor-in-chief of the nation's best-selling daily, has been...
View ArticleDetained Zaman editor-in-chief denies charges against him in testimony
Zaman editor-in-chief Ekrem Dumanlı, who was detained on Dec. 14 as part of a government-backed police operation against high-level media members, directors and producers of a popular television serial...
View ArticleOpposition: Charges against detained journalist Dumanlı ‘ridiculous’
Charges related to defamation and membership in a terrorist group that have been leveled against the editor-in-chief of the Zaman daily, Ekrem Dumanlı, have been slammed by members of the opposition...
View ArticleEP member: Dream of European Turkey has become nightmare
Our dream of a European Turkey has turned into a nightmare and it is time for a wake-up call, Marietje Schaake, a Dutch member of the European Parliament (EP) said in an EP plenary debate on Turkey's...
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