Turkey falls to 159th in global press freedom index amid deepening media crisis
Turkey has fallen to 159th place in the 2025 World Press Freedom Index published by Reporters Without Borders (RSF), down ...
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Good Vibrations fades out as RTÜK silences Turkey’s Açık Radyo
Açık Radyo's terrestrial broadcast ended at 13:00 local time on 16 October, following a decision by the Turkish Radio and ...
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Turkey revokes licence of Açık Radyo over use of term ‘Armenian genocide’
The Radio and Television Supreme Council of Turkey (RTÜK) revoked the terrestrial broadcast licence of the station Açık Radyo on ...
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Musa Anter Awards honour journalists exposing truth: Free press will not be silenced!
The 31st annual Musa Anter and Martyrs of Free Press Journalism Awards were presented at a ceremony held at the ...
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A war that the world ignores – a weekly news review
Sarah Glynn Less than a week after Turkey assassinated two Kurdish women journalists working in the Kurdistan Region of ...
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YPJ slams Turkey’s drone attack on Kurdish journalists as bid to conceal annexation plans
The Kurdish-led force Women’s Protection Units (YPJ) have condemned the recent Turkish drone strike that killed two Kurdish journalists, Gülistan ...
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Censorship report reveals extensive media suppression in Turkey
Turkey blocked 219,054 URLs (website addresses) in 2023, with corruption and misconduct-related news being the most frequently targeted, a report ...
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