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Ankara - 2023
Journalists’ criminal complaint about ‘strip search’
Arrested on October 29, 2022 as part of an Ankara-based investigation and sent to the Sincan Women’s Closed Prison, five women journalists filed a criminal complaint after they had been…
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İzmir - 2022
Attack and threat against journalists in İzmir
Going to the Çamlık neighborhood in İzmir’s Selçuk district on December 13, 2022 to cover the municipality’s alleged continuation of the construction of unlicensed buildings despite the instruction of the…
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İstanbul - 2022
Censorship on news regarding tenders given to Bilal Erdoğan’s friends
With the decision of the İstanbul Anadolu 6th Criminal Judgeship of Peace dated December 8, 2022 and upon the request of Bilal Erdoğan, an access block was imposed on 42…
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Ankara - 2022
Access block to news on sexual abuse – Adana Pozantı Juvenile Prison
The news reports dated 2011 about the allegations of torture and sexual abuse of children held in Adana Pozantı Juvenile Prison were blocked to access by the Ankara Batı 2nd…
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İstanbul - 2022
Access block to news about President Erdoğan’s former lawyer
On the grounds of violation of personality rights and as per the decision dated November 24, 2022 and numbered 2022/8089, the İstanbul Anadolu 4th Criminal Judgeship of Peace ruled that…
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İstanbul - 2022
Access block to news about Boğaziçi University’s appointed rectorate
An access block / order of removal has been issued for a series of news reports about the appointed rectorate of Boğaziçi University over the past year on the grounds…
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İstanbul - 2022
Broadcast ban and bandwidth throttling following the İstanbul explosion
Following the explosion that occurred in İstanbul’s İstiklal Avenue in Taksim/ Beyoğlu on November 13, 2022 and claimed the lives of six people and wounded 81 others as of November…
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İstanbul - 2022
Access block to news about Bilal Erdoğan
With its decision dated November 3, 2022 and numbered 2022/9014, the İstanbul Anadolu 6th Criminal Judgeship of Peace imposed an access block on various news reports about President Recep Tayyip…
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İstanbul - 2022
Access block to news on President Erdoğan’s former lawyer
On the grounds of “violation of personality rights” and with its decision dated October 5, 2022 and numbered 2022/6831, the İstanbul Anadolu 4th Criminal Judgeship of Peace imposed an access…
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Diyarbakır - 2022
Detention of journalists during news coverage in Diyarbakır
During the demonstration held in Diyarbakır on October 4, 2022 to protest the killing of journalist and academic Nagihan Akarsel, six people, including Mezopotamya Agency (MA) reporter Eylem Akdağ and…
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2022
Profiling of 20 journalists, including TGS and DFG Chairs, by the Security Directorate
The Directorate General of Security Foreign Relations Department sent a file of profiling classified “top secret” to the Provincial Directorates of Security of Ağrı, Ankara, Antalya, Diyarbakır, Giresun, İstanbul, İzmir,…
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Şanlıurfa - 2022
Prevention of journalists from following the Justice Watch by police
The journalists who wanted to follow the Şenyaşar family’s Justice Watch were prevented by the police at the entrance of the Urfa Courthouse. Saying that taking pictures and videos was…
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Diyarbakır - 2022
Censorship on newspapers for imprisoned journalists
As reported by Mezopotamya Agency (MA), Xwebûn newspaper editor Zeynel Abidin Bulut, in his letter from the Diyarbakır No. 2 High Security Prison, wrote that 16 journalists arrested in Diyarbakır…
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Ankara - 2022
Threat against journalists covering the investigation against Ünsal Ban
The press room at the Ankara Courthouse was raided by the police while the journalists covering the investigation launched against Ünsal Ban were in there. Police officers threatened journalists, warning…
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Van - 2022
Death threat by police against journalists
Covering the march following the September 1 World Peace Day rally held by the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) in Van, journalists were battered by the police. Police officers forced journalist…
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İstanbul - 2022
Police intervention against the journalists covering evictions due to urban transformation
In the morning hours of August 22, 2022, the police raided Tokatköy Neighborhood in İstanbul’s Beykoz, where a set of demolitions were underway as part of an urban transformation project.…
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Ankara - 2022
Access block to news on AKP Erzurum MP
With the decision of the Ankara 1st Criminal Judgeship of Peace dated August 29, 2022 and numbered 2022/10228, an access block has been imposed on the news regarding the social…
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Mardin - 2022
Broadcast ban on news regarding the accident in Mardin’s Derik
The Derik Criminal Judgeship of Peace gave a decision of broadcast ban on the news regarding the road accident that claimed the lives of 20 lives in Mardin’s Derik district.…
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2021
Access block to Sedat Peker’s social media accounts and posts
An access block has been imposed on crime group leader Sedat Peker’s YouTube channel and some videos and his Twitter and Instagram accounts on the grounds of “protecting national security…
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