Taraf

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.

Three journalists from daily BirGün face up to four years in prison on charges of "insulting the Turkish president" while a columnist from daily Taraf has testified on the same charge.

The World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA) and the World Editors Forum have expressed their concern over the government's refusal to grant accreditation to some media outlets for the Nov. 15-16 G-20 Summit in Antalya.

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.

When the first group of soldiers were taken under detention in February 2010, a month after prosecutors began an investigation upon the news story broken by daily Taraf about a coup plan dating from 2003 to topple the government, I believe the very first reaction of some of us (meaning journalists, academics, elites, etc.) was not so much about ?why? it happened but more about ?how?

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.