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Position: Journalist & Documentary Directors Accusations: Spreading terrorist propaganda Case Background: Journalist Ertuğrul Mavioğlu and Çayan Demirel, who is the director of a documentary called “A Guerilla Documentary: Bakur” are being charged with “making terrorist propaganda” on the documentary which was screened in 2015. Documentary Bakur, which means “north” in Kurdish, which is the basis […]
Find out moreDefendants: 46 journalists and media workers from different Kurdish media outlets Media Outlets: Dicle Haber Ajansı (DİHA), Özgür Gündem, Azadiya Welat, Demokratik Modernite, Fırat Distribution Company and others Accusations: Spreading terrorist propaganda Case Background: In March 2011, 32 journalists and media workers were arrested, put in pretrial detention following a string of police operations against Kurdish media outlets such […]
Find out moreMedia outlet: Demokratik Modernite magazine Accusations: Insulting the President
Find out moreMedia outlet: İleri Haber Accusations: Insult, libel
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