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.



Families of jailed journalists concerned amid Covid-19 crisis

As the Covid-19 pandemic continues, families of jailed journalists say each day they are worried more about the well-be...

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Selahattin Demirtaş faces new investigation for his defense statement; court upholds journalist Mevlüt Öztaş’s co...

Journalist Mevlüt Öztaş sent to prison despite medical report

Öztaş’s condition is not fit for detention, according to a medical report issued by doctors treating the journalist...

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Journalist Müyesser Yıldız jailed pending trial; Supreme Court upholds convictions of 17 journalists; journalist Mev...

Freedom of Expression and the Press in Turkey - 248

Three journalists released as their trial on “Disclosing identity of MİT official” charge begins; journalist Özg...

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