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.



Freedom of Expression and the Press in Turkey – 448

Demirören pressures DHA reporter not to publish “Eylem Tok" story; Sinan Aygül’s jail term for “spreading false...

Freedom of Expression and the Press in Turkey - 279

Turkey ranks first in violations of freedom of expression among CoE member states; comedian Emre Günsal sentenced ove...

Freedom of Expression and the Press in Turkey – 353

Journalists forcibly removed, detained in protests in İstanbul, Ankara; Ali Ergin Demirhan acquitted; European Court w...

Journalist Abdurrahman Gök released pending trial at the second hearing

Journalist Abdurrahman Gök, who was detained in a house raid launched on 25 April 2023 and imprisoned pending trial on...

Court decides to keep Dicle Müftüoğlu behind bars before defense finish statements

Court decides to keep Dicle Müftüoğlu behind bars before defense finish statement...

Journalist Sedat Yılmaz released pending trial

Sedat Yılmaz, who was jailed pending trial on 3 May, is charged with “establishing and administrating a terrorist o...

Journalist Dicle Müftüoğlu not released at second hearing

Presiding judge announces decision to keep Müftüoğlu behind bars the moment defense statements end. Secret witness ...

Court orders return of confiscated materials in trial of 20 journalists in Diyarbakır

The trial of 20 journalists, with two newly merged cases, to continue in Novembe...

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