"I realize it was the best decision of my life because I would be imprisoned right now, like my colleagues." Shortly after Turkish police in riot gear raided the headquarters of Zaman Media Group on…
"It was part of the intimidation campaign to go after family members, including my mother." In hindsight, there were many clues that President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s government was making preparations to eliminate Turkey’s independent media…
A Turkish court has arrested the editor-in-chief of a daily newspaper and charged him with insulting the Turkish president. Today’s Zaman Editor-in-Chief Bülent Keneş was arrested Oct. 10 after being detained Oct. 9. The journalist was detained for hours,…
This week on Global Journalist, guest host Joshua Kranzberg takes you around the world for a series of stories on the challenges of journalism in a rapidly changing world. *Mahir Zeynalov, an Azerbaijani columnist for…
