Turkey's National Intelligence Agency

'We Are Arrested: A Journalist's Notes from a Turkish Prison" by Can Dündar (Biteback, 297 pages, £15)

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani called on Nov.

The PEN International Office in Germany has given its Herman Kesten Award to the former editor-in-chief of daily Cumhuriyet, Can Dündar, and Cumhuriyet's Ankara bureau chief Erdem Gül. 

Sascha Feuchert, vice chairman of the PEN Germany Office, said "two brave fighters of freedom" were awarded a prize worth 10,000 euros in his speech at the Nov. 17 award ceremony.

Journalists in Turkey started the week with the early bird news on Oct. 31 that yet another colleague had been taken into police custody after a raid on his house.

Turkey's Constitutional Court rulings are binding for everyone, the head of the top court has said following critical statements from the country's president over a ruling that led to the release of two journalists who were arrested in late 2015 over a news report about trucks allegedly carrying weapons to Syria.

An Istanbul court has ordered the release of 10 of 45 suspects in a case into the alleged wiretapping of hundreds of lawmakers and civil servants and the creation of a fake terrorist group publicly known as "Selam Tevhid."

The Istanbul prosecutor's office asked on Jan. 27 for life imprisonment for two Turkish journalists, Can Dündar and Erdem Gül, who had been arrested on suspicions of plotting against the government and military espionage for reporting on an ongoing court case alleging Turkey's National Intelligence Agency (M?T) sent weapons to the civil war-hit Syria.

Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Numan Kurtulmu? has said his government has repeatedly voiced its objection to the pre-trial detention of journalists in the country.

Turkish poet and writer Naz?m Hikmet will be commemorated on the 114th anniversary of his birth with a large event in Essen, Germany, on Jan. 31. 

Jailed Turkish journalists Can Dündar and Erdem Gül, accused of spying and helping a terrorist group, have told Reuters in a faxed message from prison that their arrest was designed to send a warning to journalists.