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.
Dozens arrested in operation targeting social media movement; Mümtazer Türköne released; indictment issued against M...
Court rules to send the file to the prosecutor and sets 12 January 2021 as the date for the next hearin...
The indictment, issued in 2017, charged 10 local journalists from various media outlets with “membership in a terrori...
Deputy minister files 3 lawsuits against BirGün, Evrensel and Cumhuriyet; five journalists sentenced in Antalya; inves...
On August 30, detention warrants were issued for 35 journalists as part of the probe launched into the July 15 coup d...
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...
Academic Mehmet Altan, who was kept in detention for 12 days on charges of having given televised “subliminal pro-cou...