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.
Journalist Beyza Kural, lawyer Meriç Eyüboğlu and trade union representatives Gülfem Karataş and Elif Akgül discussed the increasing police brutality against journalists in Turkey and impunity
109 journalists stood trial in May and June; 4 journalists were sentenced to a total of 9 years and 8 months in prison. Police violence against journalists increased; 5 journalists physically attacked
District governor gets restraining order against local journalist; Özgür Gündem, Özgürlükçü Demokrasi, ETHA trials postponed until November; court issues reasoned judgment in Hrant Dink murder trial
The freshly amended Press Card Regulation makes it virtually impossible for dissenting journalists to obtain press cards
Judicial reform packages introduced in Turkey in recent years, though not without their merits, have barely changed anything substantial in the judicial culture, Lawyer Baran Doğan says
Prosecutor appeals Melis Alphan’s acquittal; Cem Şimşek sentenced for "insulting" Erdoğan; Erk Acarer assaulted; Artı TV reporter Nazım Fayık taken into custody; Halk TV fined over Grup Yorum song
Hakkı Boltan handed down 2-year sentence; Sinan Aygül sent to prison; İsmail Çoban sentenced to 4.5 years in retrial; local journalist İrfan Aydın taken into custody
Adnan Bilen, Cemil Uğur, Nazan Sala, Şehriban Abi and Zeynep Durgut are charged with “membership in a terrorist organization” based on the news articles they wrote
Twenty-two journalists who were violently detained during the August 2016 raid on the newspaper’s Istanbul office are charged with “preventing police officers from performing their duty” and “insult”
Demir is charged with “memberhsip in a terrorist organization” and “terrorism propaganda” over news material found in memory cards stolen from his home in 2016