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.
Boğatekin was sentenced in 2015 to 1 year and 15 days in prison over his reporting about the former district governor ...
Aslan and Keleş are charged with “membership of a terrorist organization” for taking photographs of the barriers p...
Harun Simavi, Erdal Güven and Semin Sezerer were charged with “aiding a terrorist organization” over Diken news po...
Uludağ was on trial for criticizing former Ankara Chief Public Prosecutor's visit to President Erdoğan in a social me...
Best known for his photographs of Kemal Kurkut’s murder during 2017’s Newroz celebrations in Diyarbakır, Gök is c...
Journalist Beyza Kural, lawyer Meriç Eyüboğlu and trade union representatives Gülfem Karataş and Elif Akgül discu...
The prosecutor, who was expected to present his final opinion, demanded that a separate criminal complaint be filed aga...
All three journalists were charged with “disclosing the identity of a public official who took part in the fight agai...
Şahin is accused based on statements by secret witnesses, phone calls she made with her colleagues and her sources and...
The prosecutor, who demanded conviction for Metina for “membership in a terrorist organization,” objected to the co...