US EditionTurkiye Detains Opposition Journalist over 'False Information'
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Reporter İsmail Arı imprisoned in Turkey for spreading ‘disinformation’
Istanbul, March 23, 2026—Turkish authorities must immediately release journalist İsmail Arı and stop misusing the disinformation law, the Committee to Protect Journalists said Monday. Arı, a reporter for the leftist daily BirGün, was taken into custody in the northern province of Tokat, where he was visiting family on March 21. He was taken to Ankara the next day and arrested by a court, pending trial on the suspicion of publicly spreading disi…
Turkey detains opposition journalist over ’false information’
A journalist from a Turkish newspaper critical of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's government was placed in pre-trial detention Sunday for "spreading false information", his publication said. Ismail Ari, a journalist for left-wing newspaper Birgun, was arrested on Saturday evening in the northern province of Tokat, which he was visiting to celebrate the end of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, his paper said. He was then taken to the capital An…
The prosecutor's office requested the pre-trial detention of a journalist from an opposition newspaper in Turkey, "without even taking a statement from him," BirGün complains.
A journalist for the opposition newspaper BirGün in Istanbul was remanded in custody on Sunday night after being charged with “spreading misleading information,” the newspaper he works for said. After his arrest the day before yesterday in the northern province of Tokat, where he had traveled for the Eid al-Fitr holiday, Ismail Are was transferred to Ankara on Sunday morning for questioning. The prosecutor’s office “requested his remand (…) with…
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