The detention follows a wave of arrests and protests sparked by the March 19 arrest of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu.

The journalists work for opposition newspapers, Birgun and Cumhuriyet. Their newspapers said they were facing false charges ...

A media workers' union says Turkish authorities have arrested several journalists at their homes. That's while protests escalate after the jailing of a top rival to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

Reporters Without Borders condemned the reporters’ arrests. “There is no end to the detentions of journalists,” its Turkey representative Erol Onderoglu said. The Turkish Journalists' Union ...

Writers Timur Soykan of BirGun and Cumhuriyet’s Murat Agirel were arrested at their homes on charges of making threats and blackmail in an investigation by the Istanbul Chief Public Prosecutor’s ...

Press freedom organizations and journalist unions condemned the detentions. Erol Önderoğlu, Turkey representative for Reporters Without Borders (RSF), said, “Attacks against journalists show no sign ...

A Swedish journalist, Kaj Joakim Medin, has been arrested in Turkey while reporting on protests tied to the detention of Istanbul’s mayor. Turkish authorities have accused Medin of 'terrorism' and ...

Turkey is cracking down ... from Turkish authorities concerning the detentions. Since becoming president in 2014, Erdoğan has consistently targeted journalists. The NGO Reporters Without Borders ...

Turkish newspapers say two leading journalists have been detained over what they say are false charges stemming from their work ...

Reporters Without Borders condemned the journalists’ arrests. “There is no end to the detentions of journalists,” its Turkey representative Erol Onderoglu said. The Turkish Journalists’ Union called ...

His arrest has prompted the largest anti-government protests in Turkey in more than a decade and has led to the detention of nearly 1,900 people across the country. Meanwhile, Turkey's media ...