Al Jazeera reporter tells the ordeals of his two colleagues, held in a draconian “Scorpion prison”.

“The Turkish media has seen military coups and bad days but things were never so bad.”

We examine how news outlets have become part of the story in the recent scandal involving Erdogan’s government.

the EU shifted the focus of its neighbourhood policy from economic development towards human rights.

Charges of ‘Orientalism’ ring hollow in light of the civil rights abuses committed by PM Erdogan’s government.

Al Jazeera Turk will start as a digital operation and plans to become a broadcaster in a year

Since the founding of modern Turkey, assassinations of journalists and controversial authors has been a fact of life.

Police used water cannon to disperse hundreds of protesters that gathered in Taksim, Istanbul for a rally to protest a bill that would tighten control over the Internet.

Turkey is currently the world’s worst jailer of journalists. The Trust has been working with local partners to support Turkish freelancers who have been targeted.

Dogan Yayin Holding has increased its bid to US$879.5 million (from $742 million) for a 53% stake in the country’s leading satellite pay-TV operator Digiturk.

Restrictions on free speech and association were evident in the high number of prosecutions and ongoing trials of journalists, political activists, lawyers, and students.

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Turkey’s media proprietors seem all too willing to play along with practices that make the country feel like a corrupt central Asian republic

In Turkey as elsewhere in the Middle East, the explosion of Internet-based media outlets has surpassed the ability of the government to control information completely.

Turkey’s media ownership

First Test For English

Index on Censorship’s policy paper, Time to Step Up: The EU and freedom of expression, looks at freedom of expression both within the European Union’s 28 member states,

The way the media deliberately failed to cover the unrest in depth and diversity has become a big SOS signal for the miserable state of journalism in Turkey