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.



ANALYSIS | The legislation that paves the way for judicial harassment of journalists: TMK 6/1

Since 2018, at least 49 journalists have faced 37 court cases on charges of “marking persons assigned with the fight ...

Mustafa Kemal Güngör

Attorney Mustafa Kemal Güngör, a Cumhuriyet Foundation board member, was detained by police on October 31, 2016 as pa...

Pelin Ünker

Journalist Pelin Ünker was hit with three separate lawsuits over her article series published in Cumhuriyet daily in N...

Journalists in State of Emergency – 7

Twelve out of 14 journalists who testified to prosecutors on August 4 as part of the investigation into the failed coup...

Mehmet Altan's defense: You would have tried Rousseau, too

Prominent columnist and economist Mehmet Altan, imprisoned as part of a "coup" trial since September 2016, appeared bef...

“Prosecutions used to silence dissenting voices”

Nils Muiznieks submits opinion to European Court of Human Rights on 10 applications from imprisoned journalists Th...

Rights groups criticize Turkey's "permanent state of emergency"

More than 40 freedom of speech and media freedom organizations signed a joint statement calling on Turkish authorities...

European Court finds violation of Article 10 in Fatih Taş case

Taş’s application concerned the criminal proceedings against him for “denigrating the Republic of Turkey” on acc...

Freedom of Expression and the Press in Turkey - 165

Thirteen arrested in sweeping operation targeting civil society; reporter Sedat Sur going to prison for news coverage; ...

Another “Paradise Papers” case against Pelin Ünker gets under way

Ünker is accused of “insulting a public official” for her coverage of “Paradise Papers” leaks, published in th...

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