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.

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Former Zaman columnists Lale Kemal and Nuriye Akman, who had been in prison since July 30, were

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On Oct. 6, Evrensel reporter Cemil Uğur, who was previously taken into custody and released, was put

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On September 28, the Turkish government

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Academic Mehmet Altan, who was kept in detention for 12 days on charges of having given televised “subliminal pro-coup messages” was put under arrest by a court on Sept. 22 and his older bro

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Journalist and writer Ahmet Altan and his brother Mehmet Altan, a professor of economics, were

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On Sept. 6, two distributors of Turkey’s only Kurdish-language daily, Azadiya Welat, whose 24 employees were

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On August 30, detention warrants were issued for 35 journalists as part of the probe launched into the July 15 coup d’état attempt, officially called the “Fethhullah Gülenist Terr

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Two journalists were arrested in the latest developments in the investigation launched into the July 15 coup attempt; bringing the number of journalists arrested in the coup probe to 53. Tog

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Editor-in-chief of Özgür Gündem Zana Bilir Kaya and the same newspaper’s managing editor İnan Kızılkaya were

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