Hasan Cemal

Turkish journalist Hasan Cemal on April 3 received a suspended jail sentence of one year and six months on charges of "conducting terror propaganda" over columns he published in 2013.

Prominent Turkish journalist Hasan Cemal was acquitted on March 31 on charges of "conducting terror propaganda" via a column published in 2013.

An Istanbul prosecutor on March 9 demanded up to 13 years in prison for prominent Turkish journalist Hasan Cemal on charges of "carrying out terror propaganda" in a column published in 2013, Doğan News Agency has reported.

Prominent Turkish journalist Hasan Cemal was on March 1 convicted on charges of "insulting the president," receiving a suspended sentence of 11 months and 20 days over an article published in 2016. 

Prominent Turkish journalist Hasan Cemal has been convicted on charges of conducting "terror propaganda" due to a 2016 article regarding one of the leading figures of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), receiving a suspended sentence of one year, three months in jail.

An Istanbul prosecutor has demanded up to nine years in jail for prominent Turkish journalist Hasan Cemal on charges of "making terror propaganda" in one of his articles.

Cemal stood trial on Jan. 12, charged with "making the propaganda of terrorist organizations" and "praising crime and criminals" in a July 11, 2016 column titled "Fehman Hüseyin."

An Istanbul court has accepted an indictment against journalist Can Dündar on charges of "printing and publishing terrorist organizations' statements" during his one-day editorial duty undertaken in solidarity with a now-closed daily newspaper.

The International Publishers Association on Dec. 22 condemned what it called "blatant political censorship" in Turkey, saying three journalists' books had been pulled from shelves on court orders.

A local court has decided to confiscate books by two prominent Turkish journalists after they were found during an operation on a cell where suspected militants of the outlawed Patriotic Revolutionary Youth Movement (YDG-H) were detained. 

The term ?useful idiots? became popular in Turkey thanks to the Justice and Development Party (AKP). The staunchest opponents of the AKP accused liberals of providing ?legitimacy? to a political party that they claimed had a ?hidden agenda.?