#Journalist arrest

Turkish Cypriot journalist Vatan Mehmet was on Thursday arrested after having allegedly “illegally recorded” a conversation with the north’s public broadcaster BRT’s director Meryem Cavusoglu Ozkurt. News website ...

Sefa Karahasan, the Turkish public broadcaster TRT’s Cyprus correspondent, was arrested in the north in relation to the ongoing “fake diploma scandal” and appeared in court on Tuesday. Karahasan’...

Turkish Cypriot social media journalist Serdinc Maypa was released on bail on Monday, after having been charged with violating individuals’ right to privacy. Maypa had been arrested on Thursday and ...

Cypriot journalist Guren Tilki was released late on Friday evening, after having arrested in Turkey earlier that day for allegedly insulting the country’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in a ...

Russian prosecutors have demanded a nine-and-a-half-year jail sentence for fugitive former state TV journalist Marina Ovsyannikova, famous for bursting into a news broadcast with a placard that read “Stop the ...

More support for Turkish Cypriot journalist Ali Kismir poured in on Monday from Cyprus and from Turkey, as the presidents of the journalists’ associations of both countries condemned his arrest. ...