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.
Editors İshak Yasul, Mehmet Ali Çelebi, Reyhan Hacıoğlu, Hicran Ürün and publisher İhsan Yaşar, in pre-trial detention since April, remain behind bars after the second hearing
Şahin, Gayıp, and their two co-defendants, Ferhat Harun Pehlivan and Gülsen İmre, have been in detention on remand since April as part of this case
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İsminaz Temel remains behind bars in second hearing; appellate court upholds sentences given in Özgür Gündem trial; Fatih Polat to stand trial on “insulting the president” charg