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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İshak Yasul, Arafat Dayan handed down prison sentences; court upholds convictions in Sözcü trial; Özgür Boğatekin...

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Top Court rejects Osman Kavala’s second application; journalist Mazlum Dolan sentenced to 7.5 years in prison; RTÜK ...

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Journalist Perihan Kaya sentenced for "propaganda"; Ruhi Karadağ detained, imposed travel ban; French journalist Sylva...

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Ahmet Altan released after more than 4.5 years behind bars; ECtHR issues long-awaited Ahmet Altan and Murat Aksoy judgm...

Prosecutor demands sentence for journalist Buse Söğütlü

Söğütlü is on trial for a Twitter post about Judge Akın Gürlek. Court is expected to issue its judgment at the ne...

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Top court publishes Özgür Gündem judgment; prosecutor demands acquittal of Meşale Tolu, who spent 7.5 months behind...

Online panel: Judicial supervision as a means of silencing journalists

Lawyer Ömer Çakırgöz and journalists Buse Söğütlü and Tunca Öğreten discussed travel ban and other judicial c...

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Prosecutor demands sentence for Derya Okatan; new case against Yılmaz Odabaşı begins; court files new criminal compl...

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Sentences of five journalists in “disclosure of MİT official” case upheld; Nurcan Yalçın taken into custody; Bus...

Court acquits Buse Söğütlü, files new complaint against journalist

Söğütlü, a reporter for the news portal Gazete Yolculuk, was on trial for a Twitter post in which she commented on ...

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