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Internet agency retreats on filtering, but does not give up

Published on 10 August 2011Read

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Killer’s conviction seen as important step, but masterminds still protected and threats continue

Published on 26 July 2011Read

Two journalists complete 100th day in prison

As investigative journalists Ahmet Sik and Nedim Sener completed their 100th day in prison, hundreds of people marched down Istanbul’s Istiklal (...)

Published on 20 June 2011 Read

Online censorship now bordering on the ridiculous in Turkey

Reporters Without Borders is both amused and shocked to learn that the High Council for Telecommunications (TIB), Turkey’s Internet regulator, has (...)

Published on 29 April 2011 Read

Journalists still harassed despite progress with democracy

"We came to Istanbul to express our concern about the state of press freedom in Turkey. Even if progress has been made since the 1990s when (...)

Published on 19 April 2011 Read

Courts continue to hound journalists who cover Kurdish minority issues

Reporters Without Borders regrets that, despite the government’s denials, the demands of Turkey’s Kurdish minority continue to be off-limits for (...)

Published on 31 March 2011 Read

Seizure and destruction of Ahmet Sik’s unpublished book: "a very dangerous precedent"

Reporters Without Borders is deeply shocked by the seizure and destruction of all known copies of the last unpublished draft copy of a book by (...)

Published on 25 March 2011 Read

Courts refuse to back down, so journalists to remain in prison pending trial

Reporters Without Borders is outraged by today’s court ruling rejecting a request for the provisional release of investigative journalists Ahmet (...)

Published on 17 March 2011 Read

Court orders two journalists held on terrorist conspiracy charge

Reporters Without Borders is deeply shocked by an Istanbul court’s decision yesterday to detain two journalists arrested on 3 March, Ahmet Sik and (...)

Published on 4 March 2011 Read

Turkish justice strikes again

Reporters Without Borders condemns the eight-year suspended jail sentences that were imposed last week on two journalists as a result of their (...)

Published on 2 March 2011 Read

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Turkey - 8 August 2011

Heavy fines for two independent newspapers

Turkey - 3 August 2011

Nakhchivan authorities continue to harass IRFS correspondent

Turkey - 2 August 2011

Two seizures of newspaper issues by regional governments in past month

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