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.
6 assailants arrested for attacking Yavuz Selim Demirağ released while the assailants who attacked Ergin Çevik and Ha...
Semiha Şahin and Pınar Gayıp released under house arrest; Yavuz Selim Demirağ released on probation; compensation c...
Journalist Aziz Oruç sent to prison; court issues reasoned judgment in retrial of Cumhuriyet case; Constitutional Cour...
Doğan Ergün, Sinan Aygül sentenced; Mehmet Altan files case against judges who refused to implement top court’s ju...
On Sept. 6, two distributors of Turkey’s only Kurdish-language daily, Azadiya Welat, whose 24 employees were...
Journalist and writer Ahmet Altan and his brother Mehmet Altan, a professor of economics, were...
Assailants attack two journalists in two provinces in one week; appellate court acquits journalist Seda Taşkın of one...
In the last quarter of 2021, 203 journalists appeared before courts in 98 cases. This means on average, 70 journalists ...
In the first quarter of 2022, a total of 173 journalists appeared before courts in 101 cases. 20 journalists were sente...