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Türkei: Pressfreiheit unter Erdogan - Kurdischer Journalist bleibt als „Terrorist“ in Haft | Politik
FR - 2020-09-24 20:18
Kurdish arrest of journalist accused of 'defaming' Iraqi presiden
Alaraby - 2020-09-24 18:58
Iraqi Kurdish Police Arrest Journalist for Defamation | MENAFN.COM
Menafn - 2020-09-24 03:30
Iraqi Kurdish police arrest journalist Bahroz Jaafer over criminal defamation suit filed by Iraq’s president - Committee to Protect Journalists
CPJ - 2020-09-23 21:19Journalist sentenced to 10,5 years in prison on terror charges
Turkey has sentenced a journalist to ten years and six months imprisonment on terror charges. ...
Kurdish Journalist Musa Anter commemorated on 28th anniversary of his assassination - english
Bianet - 2020-09-21 10:39
Tributes paid to journalist Musa Anter and folk singer Ruhi Su on the anniversary of their deaths | Ahval
Ahvalnews - 2020-09-20 19:30English PEN gives jailed Kurdish journalist honorary membership
Türfent said that the award “will open a new window in my cell in this depressing and draining prison." ...
English PEN gives honorary membership to jailed Kurdish journalist | Ahval
Ahvalnews - 2020-09-17 17:32Violence and hostility: Inside the French police
BBC - 2020-09-16 01:51French journalist Valentin Gendrot describes the two years he spent undercover as a French police officer. ...
Turkish-Armenian Journalist Shot Dead - CBS News
Cbsnews - 2020-09-14 10:05TV-Serien als Propagandamittel
WDR - 2020-09-11 19:04„Kaum zu glauben, aber ein Journalist in der Türkei wurde wegen seines Tweets über eine Fernsehserie festgenommen. Oktay Candemir machte einen Witz über den Vormarsch der TV-Serien im Staatsfernsehen TRT, welche das Leben der osmanischen Sultane thematisi ...
Journalist in Turkey arrested for criticising a TV drama on Twitter
Alkhaleejtoday - 2020-09-11 18:25Kurdischer Journalist nach Demo in Wien angegriffen und verletzt - derStandard.at
Derstandard - 2020-09-11 10:21Journalist in Turkey arrested for criticising a TV drama on Twitter - The National
Thenational - 2020-09-08 17:24Proteste an Gaza-Grenze: Getöteter Journalist setzte laut Israel Drohne ein - WELT
WELT - 2020-09-08 02:53Jamal Khashoggi murder: Saudi court commutes death sentences
BBC - 2020-09-08 02:30Five people convicted over the journalist's murder have been given 20-year prison terms instead. ...
Saudi court issues final verdicts in killing of U.S.-based journalist Khashoggi at consulate in Istanbul - MarketWatch
Marketwatch - 2020-09-08 01:00Journalist Oktay Candemir taken into custody
ANF - 2020-09-07 19:07The journalist continues to be target of Turkish authorities. ...
Journalist Oktay Candemir opnieuw gearresteerd – Noord-Koerdistan – Koerdisch Nieuws
Koerdischnieuws - 2020-09-07 19:05Journalist sentenced to death by ISIS not seen for over five years - Business Insider
Businessinsider - 2020-09-06 11:49DFG: „Journalisten sind keine Agenten“
ANF - 2020-09-06 03:41Journalismus in der Türkei: Ein Journalist wurde festgenommen, weil er über den Selbstmord einer Kurdin nach einer Vergewaltigung durch einen türkischen Unteroffizier berichtete. In Amed versuchte die Polizei, einen Journalisten als Spitzel anzuwerben. ...
Donald Trump attacks 'slimeball' reporter in war dead row
BBC - 2020-09-06 00:45The president rounds on a journalist who quoted him as saying dead US soldiers were "losers". ...
DFG: 2 journalists jailed, 8 others attacked in August
ANF - 2020-09-05 08:15Journalism in Turkey: A journalist was arrested because he was reporting on the suicide of a Kurdish woman after being raped by a Turkish sergeant. In Amed, the police tried to recruit a journalist as an informer. ...
Berichterstattung durch Polizei behindert: Gewalt gegen Journalist:innen - taz.de
TAZ - 2020-09-04 18:13AUSTRALIAN STORY looks at Kurdish-Iranian journalist Behrouz Boochani | TV Blackbox
Tvblackbox - 2020-09-03 00:21Jailed journalist not allowed to see daughter for 6 months - Stockholm Center for Freedom
Stockholmcf - 2020-09-02 13:34Previously jailed journalist Mehmet Altan writes to the ECtHR president ahead of his visit to Turkey - IFEX
IFEX - 2020-09-01 23:52Turkish journalists union criticizes police officers who threatened journalist - Stockholm Center for Freedom
Stockholmcf - 2020-08-30 19:27Baku against freedom of the press; Italian journalist sounds the alarm on a known issue | ARMENPRESS Armenian News Agency
Armenpress - 2020-08-25 17:33Miroslava Breach murder: Mexico jails man who ordered journalist's death
BBC - 2020-08-24 01:23The man who ordered the killing of Miroslava Breach in 2017 receives rare 50-year sentence. ...
Iraqi Kurdish authorities shutter NRT offices in Erbil and Duhok; 1 journalist still held - Committee to Protect Journalists
CPJ - 2020-08-20 21:57Turkey frees Banksy-backed Kurdish journalist Zehra Dogan | Al Arabiya English
Alarabiya - 2020-08-19 07:41KDP security forces arrest activist Badal Barwari and his son in Duhok
E-Kurd - 2020-08-19 02:55DUHOK, Iraq’s Kurdistan region,— The security forces affiliated with Kurdistan Democratic Party KDP in Duhok arrested Kurdish activist Badal Abdulbaqi Aba Bakr Barwari and journalist Omed Haji on Tuesday evening , taking them to Duhok’s Adult Reform Priso ...
Repression gegen Journalist*innen: „Weitermachen, wo wir aufgehört haben“ - taz.de
TAZ - 2020-08-18 20:29Journalist Gulliou: Kurds rightly ask for an apology from Sweden
ANF - 2020-08-18 09:36Swedish journalist and writer Jan Gulliou said the Swedish police tried to blame the murder of Olof Palme on the PKK but was soon uncovered in its "cheap and primitive political theory." ...
Trial in Killing of Journalist Khashoggi Opens in Turkey | Voice of America - English
Voanews - 2020-08-16 06:31Journalist sterft terwijl hij verslag doet van protest in Ranya, Zuid-Koerdistan – Koerdisch Nieuws
Koerdischnieuws - 2020-08-13 13:13Journalist dies while covering protest in Ranya, South Kurdistan
ANF - 2020-08-12 21:03Journalist Huner Rasul died, apparently of a heart attack, while covering a protest in Ranya, South Kurdistan. ...
U.S. tells Saudis to hold ‘accountable’ killers of journalist – Lacombe Express
Lacombeexpress - 2020-08-11 15:09Journalist Deniz Firat killed by ISIS remembered in Maxmur
ANF - 2020-08-08 11:54Deniz Firat has been remembered in Maxmur. The Kurdish journalist was killed in an ISIS attack on the refugee camp in Southern Kurdistan six years ago. ...
Turkish court opens trial of Saudi officials in absentia over death of journalist Jamal Khashoggi
France24 - 2020-08-07 19:54CNN Journalist Detained, Kicked By Turkish Police While Live on Air | Time
TIME - 2020-08-04 06:55East Libyan military court sentences journalist to 15 years - StarTribune.com
Startribune - 2020-08-03 08:40After the Death of Another Journalist, Cameroon Needs Outside Political Mediation | Council on Foreign Relations
CFR - 2020-08-01 14:35Iraqi Kurdish authorities file complaint against journalist for COVID-19 criticism - Committee to Protect Journalists
CPJ - 2020-07-30 20:48"Sie sind der erste Journalist seit zehn Jahren, der mir überhaupt solche Fragen stellt." | Telepolis
Heise - 2020-07-30 13:04„PKK wird angegriffen, weil sie das kurdische Volk vertritt“
ANF - 2020-07-28 01:55Der südkurdische Journalist Letif Fatih Ferac sieht die Regierungsunfähigkeit der politischen Parteien als eines der Hauptprobleme in der Autonomieregion und sagt: „Die PKK wird von der Türkei angegriffen, weil sie für die Freiheit Kurdistans steht.“ ...
Koerdische Journalist Boochani asiel verleend in Nieuw-Zeeland – Koerdisch Nieuws
Koerdischnieuws - 2020-07-27 11:20Famed Kurdish Iranian journalist receives asylum in New Zealand
Al Monitor - 2020-07-27 08:05Behrouz Boochani granted asylum in New Zealand
ANF - 2020-07-26 20:03Kurdish journalist and writer Behrouz Boochani spent more than six years in Australian immigration detention on a small island in the Pacific. Now he has been granted asylum in New Zealand. ...
Kurdish journalist held by Australia for 6 years gains refugee status
Rûdaw - 2020-07-25 06:46Persisting Vulnerability For Indian Scribes
E-Kurd - 2020-07-24 06:51Nava Thakuria | Exclusive to Ekurd.net Helplessness to working journalist in India is no way an alien issue as the country loses a good number of journalists to assailants and also medical emergencies. There may be a single casualty among the media frater ...
KDP weigert informatie te verstrekken over gearresteerde journalist – Koerdische Autonome Regio – Koerdisch Nieuws
Koerdischnieuws - 2020-07-21 19:13KDP refuses to provide information on arrested journalist
ANF - 2020-07-21 14:11KDP security forces refuse to provide information on journalist Qehreman Şukri who was arrested in Duhok on June 27. ...
Journalist Aziz Oruç remains in prison
ANF - 2020-07-21 13:31The main trial against Kurdish journalist Aziz Oruç was opened in Ağrı. The 36-year-old former correspondent of DIHA news agency, banned in Turkey by decree, remains in prison for the time being. ...
Turkish court sentences German journalist in absentia for terrorism propaganda - Turkey - Haaretz.com
Haaretz - 2020-07-21 08:47Call to join journalist Oruç trial today
ANF - 2020-07-21 08:42A call for solidarity and to release journalist Aziz Oruç, whose trial will begin today, was made through social media on Monday night. ...
Turkish court sentences Germany-based journalist to jail on terrorism charges - Cyprus Mail
Cyprus Mail - 2020-07-21 03:42WATCH: Donald Trump Abruptly Ends Press Conference After Spat With A Female Journalist
Eurasiantimes - 2020-07-20 18:11Journalist Deniz Yücel sentenced to almost 3 years prison in Turkey | News | DW | 16.07.2020
DW - 2020-07-19 02:28Coronavirus: 'When coffins lined the streets of my hometown'
BBC - 2020-07-19 01:22Ecuadorean journalist Blanca Moncada was on the front line of the Covid-19 crisis in her town of Guayaquil. ...
Deniz Yücel: Journalist in Türkei wegen PKK-Propaganda verurteilt
Handelsblatt - 2020-07-18 23:37Turkey sentences Germany-based journalist to prison in absentia
Al Monitor - 2020-07-18 06:04Turkish Court Sentences Germany-based Journalist to Jail on Terrorism Charges | Voice of America - English
Voanews - 2020-07-18 03:15Deniz Yücel wegen PKK-Propaganda verurteilt
SRF - 2020-07-17 01:03Der deutsche Journalist wurde zu mehr als zwei Jahren und neun Monaten Haft verurteilt. Er nahm am Prozess nicht teil. ...
News des Tages: Umfrage: große Mehrheit für Tempolimit auf deutschen Autobahnen
Stern - 2020-07-16 23:51London: Russische Hacker wollen Infos zu Corona-Impfstoffen stehlen +++ "Welt"-Journalist Yücel in Türkei wegen PKK-Propaganda verurteilt +++ Weitere "NSU 2.0"-Morddrohungen gegen Linken-Politikerinnen +++ Die Nachrichten des Tages im stern-Ticker. ...
Turkish court sentences Germany-based journalist to jail on terrorism charges - Reuters
Reuters - 2020-07-16 23:00«Welt»-Journalist Yücel in Türkei zu Haftstrafe verurteilt
Basler Zeitung - 2020-07-16 20:51Ein türkisches Gericht hat Deniz Yücel mit einer fast dreijährigen Gefängnisstrafe belegt. Vom Vorwurf der Volksverhetzung ist er freigesprochen worden. ...
Türkei: Deniz Yücel wegen "PKK-Propaganda" zu Haftstrafe verurteilt
Die Zeit - 2020-07-16 19:40Der "Welt"-Journalist Deniz Yücel ist von einem türkischen Gericht zu zwei Jahren und neun Monaten Haft verurteilt worden. Von anderen Vorwürfen wurde er freigesprochen. ...
Turkey court sentences German-Turkish journalist Yucel to jail | Germany News | Al Jazeera
Aljazeera - 2020-07-16 18:26"Welt"-Journalist: Deniz Yücel zu zwei Jahren und neun Monaten Haft verurteilt
Süddeutsche Zeitung - 2020-07-16 18:10Das Urteil des türkischen Gerichts gegen den Reporter ergeht wegen angeblicher Propaganda für die verbotene kurdische Arbeiterpartei PKK. Vom Vorwurf der Volksverhetzung und der Propaganda für die Gülen-Bewegung ist er in Abwesenheit freigesprochen worden ...
»Welt«-Journalist Yücel in der Türkei zu Haftstrafe verurteilt
Neues Deutschland - 2020-07-16 17:50Ein Gericht in Istanbul hat den »Welt«-Journalisten Deniz Yücel wegen angeblicher Propaganda für die verbotene kurdische Arbeiterpartei PKK zu fast zwei Jahren und zehn Monaten Haft verurteilt. ...
Journalist Deniz Yücel handed prison sentence for 'terrorist propaganda' - english
Bianet - 2020-07-16 17:00Duitse journalist Deniz Yücel veroordeeld tot bijna 3 jaar gevangenisstraf – Turkije – Koerdisch Nieuws
Koerdischnieuws - 2020-07-16 16:52«Welt»-Journalist Yücel in Türkei wegen PKK-Propaganda verurteilt
Stern - 2020-07-16 14:31Ein Gericht in Istanbul hat den «Welt»-Journalisten Deniz Yücel wegen Propaganda für die verbotene kurdische Arbeiterpartei PKK zu mehr als zwei Jahren und neun Monaten Haft verurteilt. Vom Vorwurf der Volksverhetzung und der Propaganda für die Gülen-Bewe ...
News des Tages: "Welt"-Journalist Yücel in Türkei wegen PKK-Propaganda verurteilt
Stern - 2020-07-16 14:31Bundesrechnungshof sieht in Corona-Haushalt Verstoß gegen Grundgesetz +++ Weitere "NSU 2.0"-Morddrohungen gegen Linken-Politikerinnen +++ Gesundheitsminister für lokale Beschränkungen nach Corona-Ausbruch +++ Die Nachrichten des Tages im stern-Ticker. ...
Deutscher Journalist Yücel in Türkei wegen PKK-Propaganda verurteilt | kurier.at
Kurier - 2020-07-16 14:13Von PDK festgenommener Journalist seit 17 Tagen verschwunden
ANF - 2020-07-14 02:40In der südkurdischen Stadt Dihok ist der Journalist Qehreman Şukrî vor 17 Tagen festgenommen worden. Der Medienvertreter war dabei, ein türkisches Massaker bei Şîladizê zu dokumentieren. ...
Journalist jailed for 7 years on terror charges after criticising Turkish state | Morning Star
Morningstaronline - 2020-07-13 19:57Gearresteerde journalist 17 dagen vermist – Koerdische Autonome Regio – Koerdisch Nieuws
Koerdischnieuws - 2020-07-13 16:13Journalist arrested by KDP missing for 17 days
ANF - 2020-07-13 13:46Journalist Qehreman Şukri was arrested 17 days ago in the city of Duhok. The media representative was about to document a Turkish massacre in Sheladize. ...
Media: Lebanese TV journalist Neshan Der Haroutiounian will stand trial for 'insulting' Turkey
NEWS - 2020-07-13 11:47Hulya Oruç: I expect everyone to support Aziz
ANF - 2020-07-13 08:21The first hearing of journalist Aziz Oruç, who has been illegally held hostage in Patnos Prison for months, will be held in Ağrı 2nd High Criminal Court on 21 July. ...
Prison sentence for journalist Aslı Ceren Aslan confirmed
ANF - 2020-07-12 18:46An appeal court in Istanbul has confirmed the almost seven-year prison sentence for terror propaganda against the editor-in-chief of the left-wing weekly newspaper "Özgür Gelecek". The 30-year-old now wants to go to the Court of Cassation. ...
Call for solidarity with journalist Oruç as trial nears
ANF - 2020-07-10 08:17A call for solidarity was made for Journalist Aziz Oruc, whose trial will begin on 21 July. ...
UNPO: Iranian Kurdistan: Journalist on Third Hunger Strike
UNPO - 2020-07-10 06:53Why death of war reporter Christopher Allen must be made visible | Journalist safety | The Guardian
The Guardian - 2020-07-06 11:53Is the PKK the reason or the result?
ANF - 2020-07-04 14:28It is not the existence of the PKK that is the reason why the Turkish state attacks Kurds, but the fact that the Turkish state attacks Kurds is the reason for the existence of the PKK, comments journalist Meral Çiçek from Sulaymaniyah. ...
Jamal Khashoggi: Saudis sentence five to death for journalist's murder - BBC News
BBC - 2020-07-03 00:09Jamal Khashoggi: Turkey charges 20 Saudis over journalist's murder - BBC News
BBC - 2020-07-02 06:35Meet journalist Beritan Canözer, a threat to Turkish misogyny | The Canary
Thecanary - 2020-06-29 10:37Happy 219th birthday to French classical liberal economist Frederic Bastiat!
AEI - 2020-06-29 00:15Tomorrow, June 29, marks the 219th anniversary of the birth of the great French classical liberal economist Frédéric Bastiat (born June 29, 1801) whom economist Joseph Schumpeter called the “most brilliant economic journalist who ever lived.” According to ...
Kurdischer Journalist nach Demo in Wien attackiert
Krone - 2020-06-28 18:59Auch wenn eine Kundgebung von kurdischen und linken Aktivisten am Samstag ohne gröbere Zwischenfälle verlaufen ist, dürfte es nach der Aktion zu einem Angriff gekommen sein. Der Journalist Nurettin Civandag wurde auf seinem Heimweg von der Demo in Favorit ...
Krawalle: Vorerst keine weiteren Demos in Favoriten angekündigt
Kurier - 2020-06-28 18:22Der Umzug am Samstag wurde nicht von Rechtsextremen gestört. Doch abseits wurde ein Journalist angegriffen. ...
Journalist detained in the operation against DTK
ANF - 2020-06-27 08:29Yet another person has been arrested in the scope of the investigation launched against the civil society organization DTK. ...
Suspended prison sentence for journalist over Tahir Elçi cartoon
ANF - 2020-06-26 11:01Kurdish journalist Özgür Paksoy has been sentenced to a suspended prison term of almost one year for “insulting the president”. A caricature of the Brazilian cartoonist Carlos Latuff, which shows the slain lawyer Tahir Elçi, was cited as evidence. ...
Trial against journalist Sabiha Temizkan adjourned
ANF - 2020-06-25 17:46The trial of Sabiha Temizkan has begun in Istanbul. The journalist is accused of "terror propaganda" due to Twitter posts. ...
