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.
The Ankara court rules to block access to 135 web sources, including Gazete Fersude, ETHA and website monitoring Gezi t...
Independent news portal bianet’s website “erroneously” put on long list of websites to be blocked; peace academic...
Gezi trial, merged with retrial of 35 Beşiktaş fans, adjourned until October; Ahmet Kanbal to stand trial over social...
Beritan Canözer taken into custody; İbrahim Karakaş sentenced to 9 years in prison; Hikmet Tunç handed down 8-month...
155 journalists were in prison in Turkey as of March 10; which marked the ...
Executives and columnists of the shuttered Zaman daily indicted for “attempting to overthrow the government and con...
On May 16, the Istanbul 13th High Criminal Court handed down prison senten...
Executives of the shuttered Hayatın Sesi television appeared before a court o...
Imprisoned journalists Ahmet and Mehmet Altan and Nazlı Ilıcak appear before court in first hearing of their “cou...
Arrest warrants issued for 34 ex-TRT employees. Number of imprisoned journalists rises to 166 as Mehmet Çakmakçı sen...