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Mesopotamian Women Journalists Association: 6 journalists taken into custody

The Mesopotamian Women Journalists Association (MKG) has released its October report on rights violations faced by female journalists.


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Thursday, 7 November 2024,


The Mesopotamian Women Journalists Association (MKG) has released its October report on rights violations faced by female journalists.

The report documents that in October, six journalists were taken into custody, five were threatened, and three were physically attacked. The MKG highlighted an increase in government pressures and restrictions, noting the ongoing house arrest of journalist Melike Aydın for over eight months as a significant example.

The report criticized limitations on public access to information through measures like "bandwidth throttling" and pointed to access restrictions imposed on social media following the attack at the TUSAŞ facility in Ankara.

The report underlined that, as of 1 October, there were seven female journalists in prison.

The report provides the following details on the repression faced by journalists:

- Three journalists experienced assaults while covering news,

- Six were taken into custody,

- Five were subjected to mistreatment,

- Three faced obstructions in their work,

- Five were threatened,

- Four were placed under investigation,

- Three faced lawsuits,

- Seven are still under trial,

- Six journalists collectively received 30 months of prison sentences,

- One journalist was dismissed from her job,

- There were 126 instances of social media content being blocked, and

- Ten broadcast bans were issued.

The detained journalists listed in the report are as follows:

- Elif Ersoy – Editor of Yürüyüş magazine

- Hatice Duman – Owner and Editor of Atılım newspaper

- Lütfiye Burcu Kara – Mücadele Birliği newspaper

- Selamet Turan – Journalist

- Tülay Canpolat – Sabah newspaper’s Ankara Correspondent

- Özden Kınık – Former TRT Employee

- Özlem Seyhan – Journalist

This report by MKG sheds light on the increasing risks and restrictions that journalists, especially women, face in Turkey and underlines the pressing need for protecting freedom of the press and journalists' rights in the country.

Turkish court orders confiscation of Yeni Yaşam newspaper

A Court in Turkey ordered the confiscation of the 4 November issue of the Yeni Yaşam newspaper because it published a photo of Abdullah Öcalan.


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Thursday, 7 November 2024

The Büyükçekmece Criminal Court of Peace on Duty issued a decision to confiscate the 4 November issue of the Yeni Yaşam Newspaper on the pretext that it contained a photograph of Abdullah Öcalan