22 July 2025
Journalist Şenol Öksüz was taken into custody on 22 July 2025 over a news report alleging that Rize Provincial Director of National Education Halil İbrahim Akmeşe had renovated his office and built a private toilet for himself. He was detained along with Gençağa Karafazlı, the Chairperson of the Eastern Black Sea Branch of the Progressive Journalists Association (ÇGD). Both journalists gave their statements to the prosecutor and were released afterwards.