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.
One more journalist arrested; three more media organizations shut down with new Cabinet decre...
Erdoğan Alayumat, a reporter for the shuttered Dicle Media News Agency (Dihaber), was taken into custody on July 14, 2...
On April 4, Turkish prosecutors submitted an indictment to a...
On March 31, a court ruled for the release of 21 journalists...
On March 22, Platform for Independent Journalism P24 updated the number of imprisoned journalists in Turkey to 150 from...
Ünal Tanık, the owner of the Rota Haber news website shuttered under a State of Emergency decree was arrested on Jan....
May 3 was International World Press Freedom day, which was marked in a particularly poignant atmosphere this year in Tu...