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.



BirGün trial gets under way

İbrahim Aydın, Barış İnce, Can Uğur and Bülent Yılmaz are charged with “aiding a terrorist organization” ov...

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Ozan Kaplanoğlu sentenced; new arrest warrant for Can Dündar; ECtHR rules Ali Bulaç's detention violated right to li...

Journalists Canan Coşkun, Can Uğur and Ali Açar acquitted

All three journalists were charged with “disclosing the identity of a public official who took part in the fight agai...

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Osman Kavala remains behind bars; photographer Mehmet Özer, filmmaker Veysi Altay sentenced for “propaganda”; Gök...

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Sedef Kabaş jailed, Can Uğur detained for “insulting president”; Baransu remains behind bars in Taraf trial; Abdu...

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Journalist Görkem Kınacı acquitted; Supreme Court of Appeals reverses Enis Berberoğlu and Erdem Gül judgment; grap...

Canan Coşkun

Journalist, former courthouse reporter for Cumhuriyet newspape...

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Journalist Mehmet Baransu ordered to remain behind bars at the end of 21st hearing in Taraf trial; 5 journalists arrest...

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T24 Editor-in-Chief Doğan Akın to stand trial over website’s “Fuat Avni” reports; at least 6 journalists handed...

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At least three journalists jailed in a week; court issues reasoned judgment in Altans trial; three journalists to stand...

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