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.
Ahmet Altan, Mehmet Altan, Nazlı Ilıcak and 3 other co-defendants handed down aggravated life sentences for “attem...
Institutions advocating freedom of expression and freedom of the press severely criticize verdict that sentenced the Al...
Imprisoned reporter İdris Sayılgan ordered to remain behind bars in the second hearing of the case against him ...
Istanbul court maintains defendants in the Altans case “participated as perpetrators” in the failed coup attempt ...
Nazlı Ilıcak appears before court in first hearing of “espionage” case; four more Özgürlükçü Demokrasi journ...
Azadiya Welat editor handed down prison sentence for “propaganda”; indictment seeks 10.5 years in prison for Sibel ...
Çiğdem Toker faces lawsuit seeking TL 1.5 mln in damages; indictment issued for Özgürlükçü Demokrasi employees; ...
The following questionnaire, conducted by P24 Platform for Independent Journalism, is part of a survey aimed at reveali...
Cumhuriyet Foundation’s new board replaces newspaper’s editor-in-chief, managing editor; Prosecutor seeks yet anoth...
The veteran journalist is charged in this case with “espionage” for a newspaper column she wrote in 2015 &nbs...