Media freedom in Turkey takes another blow - Al-Monitor: The Middle Eastʼs leading independent news source since 2012

Tulin Daloglu

Tulin Daloglu

Feb 7, 2014

Today's Zaman columnist Mahir Zeynalov is escorted through Istanbul Ataturk Airport while he is being deported to Azerbaijan, Feb. 7, 2014. — Twitter/@svdarslan

Members of Islamist rebel group al-Nusra Front prepare a home made mortar in Aleppo's Bustan al-Qasr neighborhood June 5, 2014. REUTERS/Hamid Khatib (SYRIA - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST CONFLICT) - RTR3SE8K

Turkey finally designates Jabhat al-Nusra a terrorist group

Tulin Daloglu

People use computers at an internet cafe in Ankara February 6, 2014. Turkey's parliament, where Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan's AK Party has a majority, has approved internet controls enabling web pages to be blocked within hours in what the opposition decried as part of a government bid to stifle a corruption scandal with methods more suitable to "times of coups". Under a bill passed late on Wednesday, telecommunications authorities can block access to material within four hours without a prior court order

Erdogan takes on the Internet

Cengiz Candar

Is Twitter giving in to Turkish censorship?

Sibel Utku Bila

Sibel Utku Bila

Television journalists report from outside the headquarters of Turkey's ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) party, shortly before the country's president-elect announces the name of his party's new chairman, in Ankara, on August 21, 2014. Turkey's ruling party is meeting on August 21 to agree on a new leader and prime minister to replace incoming president Recep Tayyip Erdogan, with Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu the frontrunner for the job.AFP PHOTO / ADEM ALTAN (Photo credit should read AD

How foreign journalists become 'spies' in Turkey

Fehim Tastekin

In Paris, reporting on Turkish politics