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.
On May 2, Ayşenur Parıldak, a Zaman journalist who has been imprisoned as part of the probe into the alleged group be...
Recent arrest of reporter Mehmet Güleş brings number of journalists in prison to 149 ...
Şirin Kabakçı ordered to remain behind bars after 2nd hearing; Mehmet Gündem appears before court for 1st hearing a...
Supreme Court of Appeals upholds sentence for Mehmet Güleş; Appellate court rejects appeals in Altans case; Saudi jou...
Beritan Canözer taken into custody; İbrahim Karakaş sentenced to 9 years in prison; Hikmet Tunç handed down 8-month...
Prosecutor demands sentence for Derya Okatan; new case against Yılmaz Odabaşı begins; court files new criminal compl...
Executives and columnists of the shuttered Zaman daily indicted for “attempting to overthrow the government and con...
On April 4, Turkish prosecutors submitted an indictment to a...
On March 31, a court ruled for the release of 21 journalists...
On March 22, Platform for Independent Journalism P24 updated the number of imprisoned journalists in Turkey to 150 from...