Media freedom in Turkey

Turkey's Supreme Court of Appeals ordered on Sept. 12 the release of six former employees of the opposition Cumhuriyet newspaper who were jailed on terrorism-related charges.

Six former staffers of the Cumhuriyet newspaper were returned to prison on April 26 after a court in February rejected appeals of their sentences.

The lawyers of eight former employees of daily Cumhuriyet, including journalists and executives, have appealed to an Istanbul court for the suspension of the execution of their jail terms.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) is set to hear Turkey's appeal on the detention of an opposition leader accused of terrorist links, according to Turkish Justice Ministry on March 19.

Turkish authorities have issued an arrest warrant for journalist Can Dündar as part of an investigation into the 2013 Gezi Park protests in Istanbul, state-run Anadolu Agency said on Dec. 5.

A Turkish court sentenced a daily Cumhuriyet reporter to more than two years in jail on July 19 over charges of making people potential targets for militant groups through her reporting, the paper said. 

Turkish journalist Erdem Gül has been acquitted of charges of "publishing state secrets," his newspaper Cumhuriyet reported on July 16.

An administrator of the Turkish military university, established by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan to help clean up the armed forces after a 2016 failed coup, has been arrested over alleged links to the putsch, the Cumhuriyet newspaper said on May 29.

An Istanbul court sentenced 15 of 10 former staffers of the shut-down daily Zaman to a range of jail terms on terror-linked charges on April 30. 

An Istanbul court on April 2 issued an arrest warrant and a red notice for exiled former daily Cumhuriyet editor-in-chief Can Dündar in a case involving the much-publicized National Intelligence Organization (MİT) trucks that allegedly carried weapons to Syria in 2014.