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.
Journalists Hülya Kılınç, Barış Pehlivan, Murat Ağırel released; file against Erk Acarer separate...
Ahmet Altan spends 4 years behind bars; five journalists sentenced for “exposing” MİT operative; Müyesser Yıld...
ETHA reporter Pınar Gayıp arrested; Özgür Boğatekin handed down 18-month sentence; prosecutor seeks life sentence ...
"Coup" trial against Osman Kavala merged with Gezi trial; journalists İdris Sayılğan and Alican Uludağ sentenced;...
Deputy minister files 3 lawsuits against BirGün, Evrensel and Cumhuriyet; five journalists sentenced in Antalya; inves...
Five journalists who reported on torture allegations acquitted; Rojhat Doğru sentenced to life in prison; Albayrak app...
Sentences of five journalists in “disclosure of MİT official” case upheld; Nurcan Yalçın taken into custody; Bus...
Jail term for journalists Eser and Topaloğlu; sentencing of journalist Uğur Yılmaz approved; case filed against two ...
Social media restricted, broadcast ban imposed after deadly bomb attack in İstanbul; Beritan Canözer given prison te...
Çelik and Yayla denied charges pressed against them over their news item and requested their acquittal. The trial was ...