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.

ANALYSIS | Ethical burden of journalism: Tavşantepe incident

Journalists should have insistently asked “Why is the number of missing children no longer disclosed” to show that the Narin Güran incident was not an independent police matter

Judicial fine against journalist Gözde Bedeloğlu for "insult"

The court deferred the sentence considering her attitude and behavior during the trial

ANALYSIS | "Agents of influence" bill: A new blow to civil society and freedom of the press

There should be no doubt that the proposed law will be a potential weapon to be deployed at any time to render the press and civil society organizations nonfunctional should it pass into law

Freedom of Expression and the Press in Turkey – 474

Furkan Karabay imprisoned; RTÜK fines criticism of “trustees;” Dinçer Gökçe and Nilay Can detained over reporting on “Newborn gang;” Ali Duran Topuz and Sibel Tekin acquitted

Battered journalists detained "by accident"

JinNews reporter Pelşin Çetinkaya and Yeni Yaşam newspaper employee Veysi Akören have been told “Sorry, we have detained you by accident” at police station

Case filed over reporting by three journalists in İzmir

Journalists’ conversations and published news items cited as evidence of charges in indictment against MA reporters Semra Turan and Tolga Güney, and JinNews reporter Melike Aydın

Documentary filmmaker Sibel Tekin acquitted

Presenting their final opinion on the case, prosecutor states the images leading to Tekin’s trial are not unequivocal

Journalist Ali Duran Topuz acquitted

The court agrees with the prosecutor’s opinion that “the impugned crime was not defined as a crime in the law”

Yeni Yaşam newspaper ordered off the shelves six times in a month

Yeni Yaşam columnist Ahmet Güneş objected to the confiscation of issues, saying the decisions were unlawful and they would not accept them

Freedom of Expression and the Press Agenda: No let-up in judicial pressure or threats against journalists

In the 3rd quarter of 2024, courts heard 70 cases against 89 journalists and 1 newspaper. 11 journalists were sentenced; 9 new cases were filed against 10 journalists; 4 journalists were jailed

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