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.
Yeni Yaşam former responsible editor Osman Akın convicted of “propaganda”; academic Tuna Altınel acquitted in ca...
Evrensel and Yeni Asya newspapers are currently prohibited from running public ads. The vast majority of the penalties ...
Evrensel newspaper’s lawyer Devrim Avcı, RSF Turkey representative Erol Önderoğlu and main opposition CHP Deputy U...
Nur Ener, a news editor with the Yeni Asya daily, was arrested on March 6. Yeni Asya...
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...
On May 2, Ayşenur Parıldak, a Zaman journalist who has been imprisoned as part of the probe into the alleged group be...