HEADLINES
Outrage in Turkey after Facebook blocks Islamist pages and hacking groups
Islamists across Turkey are taking to Twitter to protest against the closure of several fundamentalist Facebook groups and pages. Conservative Turks, who represent a...
TECHNOLOGY
Yeni Şafak Coverup Following Doctored Beyaz Show Video: A Technical Analysis
D8 News has verified that Turkish daily Yeni Şafak attempted to cover up after publishing a falsified video which frames Beyaz Show audience members as...
Turkey denies right to seek information following Taksim bombing
Twitter and Facebook have been blocked by throttling for more than 24 hours following the bombing on Istiklal Street, Taksim, Istanbul yesterday.
https://twitter.com/TurkeyBlocks/status/711307124136083456
As shown in data compiled...
HEADLINES
TECH AND GADGETS
Dutch minister Koenders to investigate Amnesty claims
Dutch politician and diplomat Bert Koenders will travel to Turkey later this week to investigate differing reports covering the treatment of migrants, and specifically allegations that...
LATEST
LATEST REVIEWS
Turkish journalist Ismail Saymaz under investigation following Hurriyet ByLock interview
The Istanbul chief prosecutor has launched an investigation following publication yesterday of an interview by Hurriyet investigative journalist Ismail Saymaz with David Keynes, alleged developer of the...
TURKEY
Outrage in Turkey after Facebook blocks Islamist pages and hacking groups
Islamists across Turkey are taking to Twitter to protest against the closure of several fundamentalist Facebook groups and pages. Conservative Turks, who represent a...
Turkish prosecutor seeks life sentences for Journalists Dundar and Gul
Istanbul Deputy Chief Public Prosecutor İrfan Fidan has demanded life sentences for jailed journalists Can Dündar and Erdem Gül.
Can Dündar, editor-in-chief of Cumhuriyet newspaper,...
Pro-Kurdish Ozgur Gundem newspaper shut down
A Turkish court has ordered the closure of Özgür Gündem (loosely translated, Free Agenda) on grounds of "producing terror propaganda" for the PKK separatist group.
The...
Terror attack on Istiklal Street, Taksim in Istanbul
Reports are coming in of several dead, seven wounded as an explosion hits Taksim central Istanbul.
Roads have been blocked and access to the area is...
Turkey to boost surveillance and signals intelligence capacity with new National Security Directorate
Turkey has outlined plans to divide its MIT intelligence unit into separate foreign and domestic agencies, part of a reform intended to support the...
OPINIONS
Hashtag explained: #Freedom4Academics4Peace
This somewhat unwieldy hashtag, trending on Twitter for several hours, has been organised by supporters of a group of three scholars imprisoned in Turkey after...
