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Another attempt to murder daily’s editor

Published on 7 April 2011Read

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Journalist summarily deported after residing in Northern Cyprus since 1991

Published on 12 January 2011Read

Some Turkish journalists banned from covering football match

Reporters Without Borders expressed dismay at a decision by Cyprus to ban Turkish journalists based in the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (...)

Published on 28 July 2005 Read

Reporters Without Borders condemns bombing of main Turkish-Cypriot newspaper

Reporters Without Borders condemned an overnight attack on the offices of daily Kibris newspaper in which three separate bombs exploded, in the (...)

Published on 7 May 2004 Read

Five journalists face heavy prison sentences for "insulting" the army

Reporters Without Borders today voiced outrage at prosecutions begun on 3 and 4 November in the Turkish part of Cyprus against five journalists (...)

Published on 5 November 2003 Read

Journalist beaten up by members of ultra-nationalist Turkish Cypriot group

Reporters Without Borders today condemned the beating received by newspaper editor Murat Kanatli from members of an ultra-nationalist group on 17 (...)

Published on 20 October 2003 Read

Turkish Cypriot authorities stop opposition journalist entering other part of island

Reporters Without Borders today protested against the action of the Turkish Cypriot authorities in preventing Sener Levent, editor of the Turkish (...)

Published on 9 May 2003 Read

Ten Spanish journalists expelled from northern part of island

Reporters Without Borders today denounced the absurdity of rules applying to foreign journalists visiting the Turkish-governed northern part of (...)

Published on 17 October 2002 Read

Turkish-Cypriot journalists freed

Sener Levent and Mehmud Ener, of the daily paper Afrika, have been freed after the Turkish-Cypriot Supreme Court ruled on 3 October that their (...)

Published on 4 October 2002 Read

Wife of murdered journalist threatened

Reporters Without Borders expressed its concern today about pressures being exerted on the widow of murdered journalist Kutlu Adali, apparently (...)

Published on 12 September 2002 Read

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Cyprus - 10 August 2011

Internet agency retreats on filtering, but does not give up

Cyprus - 8 August 2011

Heavy fines for two independent newspapers

Cyprus - 3 August 2011

Nakhchivan authorities continue to harass IRFS correspondent

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He is the editor of Erk, the last opposition newspaper in Uzbekistan until it was banned by the authorities in 1993, and he was jailed on 18 August 1999 in the wave of repression after the failed assassination attempt on President Islam Karimov in Tashkent on 16 February 1999.

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