Arşîvên Tag: media freedom

The police raided two important Kurdish TV channels, which have the mission to inform the Kurdish people, without informing the officials and lawyers of the organisations. During the raid, the police broke the doors, removed the screens, cut the cables, tore up the desks and deliberately damaged the technical equipment …

Russia’s state-run Sputnik news agency has closed down its Kurdish-language website at the request of the Turkish government, according to a report by online news outlet Artı Gerçek. Sputnik announced on Saturday that it had ended its Kurdish language website without mentioning any particular reason for the decision. “Dear readers, we are …