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.



Lawyer says Ahmet Altan should be freed after judicial reform

Trial will be a test case to reveal whether the reform is really an attempt to free expression, lawyer Çalıkuşu says...

ANALYSIS – Judicial Reform Package: An old box in fancy wrapping

Although Article 7/2 of Turkey’s Anti-Terror Law is one of the most critical problems for press freedom and freedom o...

Parliament passes early release bill, political prisoners excluded

Although government claims that bill is aimed at protecting detainees from Covid-19 outbreak, journalists and other pol...

ANALYSIS: Prosecutors return to criminal courts of first instance

The participation of public prosecutors in proceedings before criminal courts of first instance after nine years of abs...

ANALYSIS |The debate on a new constitution: Turkey must respect the existing Constitution first

In an environment where freedom of expression is under this much pressure, there is no convenient discussion ground f...

President Erdoğan announces "Human Rights Action Plan"

The ultimate goal of the action plan, consisting of nine articles and planned to be implemented over the next two year...

ANALYSIS | Human Rights Action Plan: "Makeup on a bedridden patient"

Lack of a clear implementation schedule, exclusion of NGOs in the mechanism for protection of human rights and failure ...

ANALYSIS | Can Turkey achieve democracy through judicial reform packages?

Judicial reform packages introduced in Turkey in recent years, though not without their merits, have barely changed any...

ANALYSIS | New judicial package "takes us further back than legislation annulled by top court"

The 8th Judicial Package was published in the Official Gazette and came into force in March. Experts say the provision ...

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