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.
İshak Yasul, Arafat Dayan handed down prison sentences; court upholds convictions in Sözcü trial; Özgür Boğatekin...
Academic Bülent Şık’s conviction over 2018 article series overturned; BirGün editor charged with “insulting pub...
Ömer Çelik, a news editor at the shuttered, pro-Kurdish Dicle News Agency (DİHA) was arrested by the police in his h...
Several journalists, who have not been detained in the ongoing investigation into the July 15 coup attempt, have said a...
On. Aug. 17, police raided the homes of Aslı Erdoğan, a novelist of international renown and a board member at Özgü...
Executives and columnists of the shuttered Zaman daily indicted for “attempting to overthrow the government and con...
On April 4, Turkish prosecutors submitted an indictment to a...
On March 31, a court ruled for the release of 21 journalists...
On March 22, Platform for Independent Journalism P24 updated the number of imprisoned journalists in Turkey to 150 from...