Mehmet Baransu

The ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) government long knew about the threat posed by U.S.-based Islamic preacher Fethullah Gülen, who was accused of masterminding the attempted takeover on July 15, main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) head Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu has said.

The number of journalists jailed in Turkey has dramatically risen in 2015, according to a special report by the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ). 

The report noted that 199 journalists were imprisoned worldwide in 2015, with China and Egypt ranking as the world's first and second worst jailers of journalists.

Journalist Mehmet Baransu has been sentenced to 10 months in prison for insulting Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an on Twitter during the latter?s time as prime minister.

Mehmet Baransu, a reporter for the daily Taraf newspaper, and his managing editor, Murat ?evki Çoban, have each gone on trial and are facing up to 52 years in prison for publishing a confidential document about a 2004 National Security Council (MGK) meeting.

Mehmet Baransu, a Turkish journalist who first made a name for himself by publishing secret military documents, was arrested earlier this week. He is accused specifically of exposing the ?Sledgehammer? documents that he published in daily Taraf in June 2010 to great sensation. The documents seemed to suggest that a ?war simulation?

The state that journalism in our country has been pushed into in the past 10 years has unfortunately created and added adjectives such as ?Baransu with the suitcase? to our profession.

Journalist Mehmet Baransu was arrested on March 2 after being detained by anti-terror police in Istanbul in an operation over the CDs that were used as evidence in the Balyoz (Sledgehammer) coup plot case.

Baransu is accused of "forming a criminal organization," as well as procuring, publicizing and then destroying "documents related to the state's interests at home and abroad."

Journalist Mehmet Baransu was arrested on March 2 after being detained by anti-terror police in Istanbul in an operation over fabricated CDs that were used as evidence in the Balyoz (Sledgehammer) coup plot case.

Journalist Mehmet Baransu was sent to court with a demand for his arrest on March 2 after being detained by anti-terror police in Istanbul in an operation over fabricated CDs that were used as evidence in the Balyoz (Sledgehammer) coup plot case.

Police detained Baransu late on March 1 after searching his home for almost 10 hours, seizing a number of documents.

An expert report on Turkey’s Balyoz (Sledgehammer) coup plot case has revealed that key pieces of evidence in the case were fabricated, stating that the notes on two CDs were written by a machine, not handwritten by General Süha Tanyeri as previously alleged.