Expression Interrupted

Journalists and academics bear the brunt of the massive crackdown on freedom of expression in Turkey. Scores of them are currently subject to criminal investigations or behind bars. This website is dedicated to tracking the legal process against them.

Freedom of Expression and the Press in Turkey – 501

Furkan Karabay imprisoned pending trial; Can Öztürk arrested while covering student protest; RTÜK fines opposition channels; Evrim Kepenek sentenced to 10 months in prison

Freedom of Expression and the Press in Turkey – 500

Five journalists acquitted in four cases; indictment filed against Ercüment Akdeniz and Yıldız Tar; all defendants acquitted in “Boğaziçi exhibition case"

Freedom of Expression and the Press in Turkey – 499

Swedish journalist Joakim Medin handed jail term; Melek Avcı acquitted; Havva Gümüşkaya detained while covering protest; RTÜK Chair Şahin files a criminal complaint against YouTuber Oruç

Özlem Gürses handed jail term

The court has deferred the sentence and lifted the judicial control measures against Gürses

Freedom of Expression and the Press in Turkey – 498

10th Judiciary Package: “Risk of disrupting public order” charge on the way; Özlem Gürses handed jail term; actor İlyas Salman ordered to pay fine for “insulting the president”

Freedom of Expression and the Press in Turkey – 497

Furkan Karabay handed jail term on 2 separate charges; Necla Demir released with prison sentence; journalists' file separated in the case with 99 defendants

Journalist Velat Ekin acquitted at first hearing

Ekin, who had been imprisoned pending trial since January on the charge of “membership in a terrorist organization,” was acquitted at the first hearing

Freedom of Expression and the Press in Turkey – 496

Murat Ağırel and Timur Soykan arrested in house raids; director Kazım Öz acquitted; final opinion to be filed in trial of journalists detained at Nazım Daştan and Cihan Bilgin commemoration

Freedom of Expression and the Press in Turkey – 495

RTÜK threatens TV stations over “boycott” broadcasting; police officer who attacked Sinan Aygül dismissed from his job; Eylem Babayiğit's programs cited as crime

Freedom of Expression and the Press in Turkey – 494

RTÜK imposes heavy penalties on TV channels reporting on protests; scores of journalists arrested for covering İmamoğlu protests; X applies to top court against BTK’s decision to block 126 accounts

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