Samanyolu

The European Court of Human Rights, ECHR in Strasbourg ruled on Tuesday that Turkey violated the rights of Hidayet Karaca, who was an executive at a major media group executive affiliated with exiled cleric Fethullah Gulen, for unfairly keeping him in detention for too long before his trial.

On Sunday, yet another weird episode was added to Turkey's endless hall of shame: About three dozen people were detained, including many journalists. These included Ekrem Dumanlı, the editor-in-chief of Turkey's top selling newspaper, Zaman, and Hidayet Karaca, the general manager of Samanyolu, a news station and TV network.

Four people who were detained in a series of police operations against members of the Turkish media, which have stirred reactions both in the country and internationally over freedom of the press, have been released.