List of arrested journalists in Turkey
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Many journalists in Turkey are being persecuted and kept in jail all over the country.[1] Below is an extensive list of the prisoners, past and present.
231 journalists have been arrested after 15 July 2016 alone.[2] According to the Gülen movement-linked (which is designated as a terrorist organization by Turkey,[3] Pakistan,[4] and the GCC[5]) advocacy group Stockholm Center for Freedom that tracks cases of prosecutions of Turkish journalists, in the year 2018, 122 journalists received a jail sentence.[6]