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.
Editors Mehmet Ali Çelebi, Reyhan Hacıoğlu, Hicran Ürün and staff member Pınar Tarlak face “membership in a ter...
Özgürlükçü Demokrasi employee Pınar Tarlak released, editors and owner ordered to remain in pretrial detention at...
Özgürlükçü Demokrasi and ETHA journos appear in court on “terrorism” charges; former publisher, editor of Evre...
Hasan Cemal faces investigation on “insulting the president charge”; courts rule to keep jailed journalists in Özg...
Editors İshak Yasul, Mehmet Ali Çelebi, Reyhan Hacıoğlu, Hicran Ürün and publisher İhsan Yaşar, in pre-trial de...
Eren Keskin, Hüseyin Aykol, Reyhan Çapan, Ayşe Batumlu and Reyhan Hacıoğlu and two others get sentences on “prop...
Lawyer and human rights defender Eren Keskin, although not a journalist by profession, faces a total of 129 trials for ...
Several journalists, who have not been detained in the ongoing investigation into the July 15 coup attempt, have said a...
On Aug. 16, four individuals including former Zaman columnist Ali Ünal were arrested in the investigation into the Jul...
On. Aug. 17, police raided the homes of Aslı Erdoğan, a novelist of international renown and a board member at Özgü...