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'A dark day for Turkish democracy': violent clashes follow Zaman takeover

Press freedom is thrown into question as Turkish authorities fire tear gas and rubber bullets at hundreds protesting the state takeover of Zaman newspaper.

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Turkish police fire tear gas amid protests over newspaper raid

Turkish police fired tear gas and plastic pellets to disperse thousands of demonstrators gathered outside the country’s biggest newspaper, “Zaman”

Turkey

Turkey: heightened concerns over press freedom as Zaman reopens

Turkey's top-selling opposition newspaper reopens following a state takeover that has once more thrown into question press freedom.

Turkey

Turkish police turn water cannon and tear gas on protesters in Istanbul

Police in Istanbul used water canon and tear gas on a crowd trying to prevent them entering the offices of Turkey’s top-selling newspaper. State

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Turkey

Release of Turkish journalists 'a clear defeat' for Erdogan

The release of two Turkish journalists has been described by one of them as a “clear defeat” for the country’s president. Can Dundar from

USA

Watch: Photographer thrown to the floor at Donald Trump rally

Things are heating up ahead of Super Tuesday on the US campaign trail. Video footage has emerged seemingly showing Chris Morris, a Time magazine

World News

Turkey: Erdogan says he won't 'accept' or 'respect' court decision to free journalists

The controversial case of two Turkish journalists, who were freed from detention on Friday, has again provoked the wrath of president Recep Tayyip

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Turkey frees journalists after court rules detention violated their rights

Turkey has freed two prominent journalists after the country’s top court ruled their detention violated their rights. The arrest of Can Dundar

My Europe Series

Determined youth of Poland use social media to battle right-wing shift

Since the end of last year, Poland has been ruled by a populist right-wing government trying to get a hold of public media and the Constitutional Court. But student Artur Sierawski has something to sa

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European rights court rules bosses can read staff emails

Employees should be careful of what they write in private messages after the European Court of Human Rights ruled companies are entitled to read

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EU probes Polish media law

The EU is to investigate Poland’s new media laws, which have been branded as a clampdown on the freedom of the press. The country’s new conservative

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35% increase in journalists taken hostage around the world

How many journalists are in prison around the world? Which country imprisons the most journalists? How many journalists are currently being held

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[Podcast] Media, censorship and self-censorship in Europe

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Political control of European media: should the EU step in?

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Women strive to be journalists, still remain a minority

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Media: less money, more freedom?

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Media freedom across the EU: how free do you feel?

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Using EU facilities doesn’t influence our journalism, say Brussels reporters

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[Video] The state of media freedom in Europe

Egypt

Egypt releases human rights activist

Egypt’s military have released a leading investigative journalist and human rights advocate who had been detained under accusations of spreading