Radikal

The trial of prominent Turkish columnist Cengiz Çandar, accused of "insulting" President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an in seven opinion pieces, was opened and immediately adjourned in Istanbul on April 6. 

The Independent printed its last edition on March 26 after a 30-year run. It has now decided to go digital-only.

Prominent columnist Cengiz Çandar faces four years in jail for "insulting" President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an in seven opinion pieces published on the Radikal news website. 

Two separate probes have been launched against Cengiz Çandar, Radikal news portal columnist, for his seven articles allegedly insulting President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an. 

"The personal rights of my client, President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an, were abused by accusation via press including insults," said Erdo?an's lawyer, Ahmet Özel, in his petition. 

Radikal, one of Turkey?s most popular news websites, shares offices with Turkish newspaper Hürriyet and its English-language sister the Hürriyet Daily News. It published the following account as an editorial on Sept. 7, hours after the violent attack carried out on the office building by pro-Justice and Development Party (AKP) protesters:

The father of the suspect arrested over the charge of leading the twin blasts at the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) rally in the southeastern province of Diyarbak?r has spoken out on how his son had been deceived to join the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), news website Radikal reported on June 15.

Signals will be used to redirect bird migration routes away from the construction of Istanbul?s third airport north of the city, the owner of the company carrying out the project has said. 

What an ironic date for a farewell: On June 21, at the beginning of the summer, Radikal - arguably the most important newspaper in the Turkish media landscape to overtly adopt a rights-based perspective, while still managing to remain relevant to the general public - was printed and distributed for the last time, as it heads into a digital-only format.