Zaman

Freedom of the press in Turkey has been confined to court corridors in 2016, said Sedat Ergin, the editor-in chief of daily Hürriyet, who appeared before an Istanbul court on March 25 on charges of "insulting" the president.

The Bak?rköy Chief Public Prosecutor's Office opened the case after investigating a tweet posted on Hürriyet's Twitter account on Sept. 6, 2015.

If you were surprised to see daily Zaman, one of the largest newspapers in Turkey, confiscated by the police last week, then you must be an outsider to Turkish politics. This was actually something that we all expected. It is just the latest step in a long process ?  the Long March, if you will, of our new revolutionaries. 

A trustee panel has been appointed to a news agency linked to U.S.-based Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen, who the Turkish president accuses of heading a "terrorist organization," days after a similar ruling led to the seizure of the Zaman media group. 

France's foreign minister said on March 7 that the decision by Turkish authorities to seize control of the country's largest newspaper was "unacceptable" and went against European values.

The government played no part in a court decision to appoint trustees to the Zaman media group, the prime minister claimed March 6, one day after trustees seized control of the group amid a bloody police crackdown on protesters.

‘Shameful day for free press in Turkey’ writes the last edition of Zaman, while its supporters gathered outside the country’s top-selling newspaper were violently removed by Turkish police which fired tear gas and used water cannon on the crowd.

Turkish police dispersed a crowd of Zaman media group supporters on March 5, a day after an Istanbul court appointed a trustee panel to seize control of the group which has links to U.S.-based Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen, who is accused of leading a "terrorist organization" aiming to topple the government. 

A trustee panel has been appointed to a media group considered to be linked to U.S.-based Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen, who the Turkish president accuses of heading a "terrorist organization" aiming to topple the government.

A lawsuit has been opened against Hürriyet Editor-in-Chief Sedat Ergin with a demand that the journalist serve five years in prison for "insulting president" due to a report in the daily.

Another court case has been opened by an Istanbul court against Sedat Ergin, Hürriyet's editor-in-chief, and Ekrem Dumanl?, Zaman's former editor-in-chief, accusing them of insulting the president in two separate stories on their newspapers' websites, while two other journalist, Can Dündar and Erdem Gül, Cumhuriyet's editor-in-chief and Ankara office chief respectively, are to complete their fi