Expression Interrupted

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.



Rights groups call for release of defendants in Altans trial

17 free speech and rights groups issue joint statement ahead of next week’s hearing in Altans case retrial   S...

Freedom of Expression and the Press in Turkey - 214

Prosecutor seeks higher than minimum sentences in retrial of Altans case; Mümtazer Türköne fined over 2014 article; ...

Ahmet Altan, Nazlı Ilıcak released after 3 years in prison

Five defendants convicted of terrorism-related charges as retrial of Altans case concludes; Mehmet Altan acquitted &...

Court issues reasoned judgment in Altans case

Ahmet Altan and Nazlı Ilıcak’s political commentary on TV and their articles cited among grounds for conviction ...

Supreme Court prosecutor asks court to uphold verdicts in Altans case

The General Prosecutor wrote that the appeals by the Presidency and the Parliament should be rejected on the grounds th...

Mehmet Altan’s extended detention violated his rights, top court rules

Altan to receive TL 30,000 in compensation for not being released from prison for 6 months despite Constitutional Court...

Freedom of Expression and the Press in Turkey – 228

Prosecutor submits final opinion in Gezi Park trial; Office of General Prosecutor asks Supreme Court of Appeals to upho...

Open letter to president of the European Court of Human Rights

Journalist and dismissed academic Mehmet Altan addresses ECtHR President Robert Spano ahead of his planned visit to Tur...

Mehmet Altan files compensation case over unjust imprisonment

Granting 10 days for Altan’s lawyer to present relevant evidence, the court adjourned the trial until December...

Freedom of Expression and the Press in Turkey - 259

Ahmet Altan spends 4 years behind bars; five journalists sentenced for “exposing” MİT operative; Müyesser Yıld...

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