Latuff cartoon shared on the internet by Aydin, a "proof" for the prosecution. Turkish actor and columnist Orhan Aydin was sentenced to 11 months and 20 days in prison for insulting Turkish Presidentturkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan for, among other things, sharing this 2015 cartoon by Brazilian cartoonist Carlos Latuff on the internet. ... Read more
Painting by Zehra Dogan (2016) Zhera Dogan was released on Sunday 24 February 2019. Zehra Dogan, a Turkish journalist and painter, announced that she had been sentenced to two years and ten months in prison, allegedly for making a painting depicting the destruction of the Turkish city of Nusaybin by government forces. But ... Read more
Latest cover of Girgir magazine 15-21 February 2017 Little joke in Turkey with religion, any joke, no matter how silly or white, can land anyone in jail. And so dangerous is satire that, as in the case of Girgir magazine, the editors themselves have applied self-censorship, acted as thought police and shut down ... Read more
Cartoonist Musa Kart, along with nine of his colleagues from the Turkish daily Cumhuriyet, is 43 days in prison today. Photograph and names of the 10 imprisoned Since the fourth day of the journalists' detention, the newspaper has published on its masthead a counter of the number of days they have been in ... Read more
Although it is not a topic that is high on the media's "news" agenda here, the Erdogan government's machinery of repression is still in full swing in Turkey. During the so-called "great purge" at least 130 journalists have been arrested and some 150 media outlets have been closed down in recent months. Today ... Read more
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