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 prosecutor demanded that jailed reporter Mehmet Baransu be sentenced for three charges and Ahmet Altan, Yasemin Ço...
Ocak, Akça, Özbey and Arık are charged with “violating the secrecy of one's private life” and “marking officia...
Twenty-two journalists who were violently detained during the August 2016 raid on the newspaper’s Istanbul office are...
Yavuz Ekinci appears in court; prosecutor seeks sentence for Dindar Karataş; RTÜK fines Halk TV, Tele1 and TR35; TÜB...
Söğütlü is on trial for a Twitter post about Judge Akın Gürlek. Court is expected to issue its judgment at the ne...
Tolu, a German citizen, remained behind bars with her toddler son for over seven months in 2017 as part of this case. C...
Kenan Kırkaya, the former Ankara representative of Dicle News Agency, is among eight defendants charged with “member...