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.



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...

Prosecution requests conviction for journalist Eren Tutel

Arguing that Eren Tutel had committed crime of “insulting a public official,” prosecutor has requested sentencing f...

Freedom of Expression and the Press in Turkey - 376

Sinan Aygül becomes first journalist to be imprisoned under “disinformation” law; top court rules for retrial of c...

Freedom of Expression and the Press in Turkey - 379

Appellate court upholds jail term handed to Müyesser Yıldız; court releases 13 imprisoned defendants in GÖÇİZDER ...

Journalist İsmail Arı acquitted

Journalist İsmail Arı has been acquitted in the trial where he was charged over his reporting on former Minister of I...

Journalist Nimet Ölmez charged with "insulting a public official" in new case

The indictment against Ölmez was recently accepted by the Hakkari 1st Criminal Court of First Instanc...

Mustafa Büyüksipahi and Birol Güger acquitted

Büyüksipahi and Güger were on trial over a news story by BirGün reporter İsmail Arı that was republished by Cumhu...

Prosecutor depicts lawyer as "public official," seeks sentence for Furkan Karabay

The indictment was accepted by the Istanbul 5th Criminal Court of First Instance, which set 18 April 2024 as the date f...

Freedom of Expression and the Press in Turkey – 442

Four journalists sentenced to imprisonment in three trials; Yeni Şafak reporter who targeted Elif Bayburt ordered to p...

Journalist Gökay Başcan acquitted of the same charge for the second time

The court had acquitted Başcan in the trial held by simple trial procedure on 3 May 2023, but Erdoğan’s lawyers had...

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