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.



Journalist Özgür Boğatekin sent to prison over 2014 news coverage

Boğatekin was sentenced in 2015 to 1 year and 15 days in prison over his reporting about the former district governor ...

Journalists Görkem Kınacı, Uğur Şahin and Uğur Koç acquitted

Court rules to acquit Görkem Kınacı, Uğur Şahin and Uğur Koç on charges of “defamation” and “insulting a p...

Prosecutor demands conviction for journalist Sezgin Kartal

Presenting their opinion on the case at the first hearing in the trial of Sezgin Kartal, the prosecutor demanded that t...

Journalist Nazan Özcan appears before court

Journalist Nazan Özcan standing trial upon a complaint by President Erdoğan’s former lawyer Mustafa Doğan İnal ha...

Journalist Nazan Özcan acquitted

Former Editor-in-Chief of the bianet news website Nazan Özcan has been acquitted in the trial filed upon a complaint f...

Journalist Furkan Karabay given jail term

The sentence of 1 year and 15 days in prison handed to Karabay over report on bribery allegations has been suspende...

Journalist Erdem Avşar given jail term on charge of "defamation"

Avşar was on trial for reporting on Sedat Peker’s claims for Yeniçağ newspaper’s websit...

Journalist Furkan Karabay handed jail term on charge of "defamation"

The court ruled that there was no need to issue a sentence for the crime of “insult...

Journalist Furkan Karabay acquitted

The court has ruled that Karabay's statements were within the scope of heavy criticism and vulgarity, and acquitted the...

Şirin Kabakcı

Former Konya bureau chief of Zaman newspape...

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