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Hayri Tunç
İstanbul - 2025
Journalist arrested for covering protests in Istanbul – Hayri Tunç
25–26 March 2025 Following the detention and arrest of İBB Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu, mass protests erupted across the city. Journalist Hayri Tunç was arrested in a police raid on his…
Zeynep Kuray
İstanbul - 2025
Journalist arrested for covering protests in Istanbul – Zeynep Kuray
25–26 March 2025 Following the detention and arrest of İBB Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu, mass protests erupted across the city. Journalist Zeynep Kuray was arrested in a police raid on her…
Yasin Akgül
İstanbul - 2025
Arrest of journalists covering protests in Istanbul – Yasin Akgül
25–26 March 2025 Following the detention and arrest of İBB Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu, mass protests erupted across the city. AFP correspondent Yasin Akgül was arrested in a police raid on…
Bülent Kılıç
İstanbul - 2025
Arrest of journalists covering protests in Istanbul – Bülent Kılıç
25–26 March 2025 Following the detention and arrest of İBB Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu, mass protests erupted across the city. Photojournalist Bülent Kılıç was arrested in a police raid on his…
Ali Onur Tosun
İstanbul - 2025
Arrest of journalists covering protests in Istanbul – Ali Onur Tosun
25–26 March 2025 Following the detention and arrest of Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality (İBB) Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu, mass protests erupted across the city. NOW TV correspondent Ali Onur Tosun, who was…
Joakim Medin
İstanbul - 2025
The arrest of Swedish journalist on charges of insulting the President – Joakim Medin
28 March 2025 Joakim Medin, a correspondent for Dagens ETC, who had come to Turkey to cover the protests that erupted following the detention of Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality (İBB) Mayor…
Joakim Medin
İstanbul - 2025
The arrest of Swedish journalist on charges of membership in an armed organisation – Joakim Medin
28 March 2025 Joakim Medin, a correspondent for Dagens ETC, who had come to Turkey to cover the protests that erupted following the detention of Istanbul Metropolitan Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu,…
Evrensel Daily
İzmir - 2025
Armed attack on Evrensel’s İzmir office
12 August 2024 Evrensel newspaper’s İzmir office was attacked with gunfire during the night of 12 to 13 August. The office was empty at the time of the attack. The…
İsmail Arı
İstanbul - 2024
Compensation lawsuit over BirGün report – İsmail Arı
14 October 2024 Mustafa Doğan İnal, a former lawyer of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, filed a moral compensation lawsuit of 100,000 Turkish Lira against BirGün reporter İsmail Arı and the…
Timur Soykan
İstanbul - 2024
Compensation case over “Halkbank” report – Timur Soykan
12 December 2024 The İstanbul Anatolian 6th Commercial Court of First Instance began proceedings against investigative journalist Timur Soykan and BirGün newspaper in a compensation lawsuit of 1 million Turkish…
Gözde Bedeloğlu
İstanbul - 2024
Sentence for “insulting an MHP MP” – Gözde Bedeloğlu
12 November 2023 The İstanbul 2nd Criminal Court of First Instance sentenced BirGün columnist Gözde Bedeloğlu to a judicial fine of 7,080 Turkish Lira on charges of “insulting a public…
Melisa Gülbaş
İstanbul - 2024
Trial over Boğaziçi report – Melisa Gülbaş
14 November 2024 The Istanbul 2nd Criminal Court of First Instance continued the trial of Melisa Gülbaş, a former reporter for Gerçek Gündem. The case was filed following a complaint…
Ahmet Sever
İstanbul - 2024
Acquittal in “Aktrol” case – Ahmet Sever
22 November 2024 Journalist Ahmet Sever, former chief press advisor to the 11th President Abdullah Gül, was acquitted in a retrial before the Istanbul 2nd Criminal Court of First Instance.…
Furkan Karabay
İstanbul - 2024
Trial on charges of insulting the President – Furkan Karabay
13 December 2024 Journalist Furkan Karabay is on trial before the 74th Criminal Court of First Instance of Istanbul on charges of “insulting the President” through a series of social…
KAOSGL
İstanbul - 2025
Access ban on Kaos GL’s Instagram account
19 August 2025 The Instagram account of the LGBTQ+ news portal KaosGL.org, published under the Kaos GL Association, has been blocked from access in Turkey. Previously, the website KaosGL.org and…
Furkan Karabay
İstanbul - 2024
Acquittal in case with 11 days of detention – Furkan Karabay
1 October 2024 Furkan Karabay, former editor of the news website Gerçek Gündem, was acquitted by the Istanbul 24th High Criminal Court. Karabay had spent 11 days in pre-trial detention…
Ali Duran Topuz
Diyarbakır - 2024
Acquittal in “targeting” case – Ali Duran Topuz
7 November 2024 Ali Duran Topuz, editor-in-chief of the news website Artı Gerçek, was acquitted by the Diyarbakır 5th High Criminal Court. Topuz had been prosecuted for a report on…
Evrim Kepenek
İstanbul - 2024
Trial over “sexual abuse” report – Evrim Kepenek
1 October 2024 Evrim Kepenek, a reporter for Bianet, has gone on trial before the Istanbul Büyükçekmece 9th Criminal Court of First Instance on charges of “violating the confidentiality of…
Bahadır Özgür
İstanbul - 2024
Trial over “criticism of the state” – Bahadır Özgür
1 October 2024 Journalist and writer Bahadır Özgür is facing trial over a speech he delivered on 2 October 2022 at the Mudanya Book Fair. During the event, Özgür referred…
Can Öztürk
İstanbul - 2025
Disinformation investigation over reporting sexual abuse allegations – Can Öztürk
7 March 2025 An investigation was launched against T24 reporter Can Öztürk following a complaint filed by Prof. Dr. Ahmet Akın regarding an article published on 4 March 2025, titled…
Yüsra Batıhan
Ankara - 2024
Disinformation trial over earthquake reports – Yüsra Batıhan
5 December 2024 Journalist Yüsra Batıhan is facing trial on charges of “publicly disseminating misleading information” (Turkish Penal Code, Article 217/A) over social media posts about the 2023 earthquakes centered…
Merdan Yanardağ
İstanbul - 2024
Retrial under Article 301 – Merdan Yanardağ
10 December 2024 Journalist and TELE1 Editor-in-Chief Merdan Yanardağ is facing retrial on charges of “insulting the Turkish nation, the State of the Republic of Turkey, and the institutions and…
Nurcan Bilge Gökdemir
Ankara - 2024
Trial over Ziraat Bank report – Nurcan Bilge Gökdemir
24 December 2025 The Istanbul Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office has indicted Nurcan Bilge Gökdemir, Ankara Bureau Chief of BirGün newspaper, over news reports based on Court of Accounts (Sayıştay) findings…
Furkan Karabay
İstanbul - 2025
Fine in “insulting the President” case – Furkan Karabay
11 July 2025 Journalist Furkan Karabay was fined 10,500 Turkish lira in a trial over three social media posts he made in 2023, on charges of “insulting the President.” At…
Zeynep Kuray
İstanbul - 2024
“Disinformation” investigation over “Akbelen” posts – Zeynep Kuray
25.10.2024 An investigation was launched against journalist Zeynep Kuray on suspicion of “publicly disseminating misleading information” over her social media posts opposing the conversion of Akbelen into a mining site.…
Fatih Altaylı
İstanbul - 2025
Access ban on YouTube channel – Fatih Altaylı
07.08.2025 The Istanbul 6th Criminal Judgeship of Peace imposed an access ban on the YouTube channel of jailed journalist Fatih Altaylı, following a request from the Istanbul Chief Public Prosecutor’s…
Philip John Pendlebury
Diyarbakır - 2017
US-based Vice News reporter Philip John Pendlebury – trial for “financial aid for terrorism” and “propagandizing for a terrorist organization”
Vice news correspondent Jacop Philip John Gingell Hanrahan, cameraman Philipi John Pendlebury, their translator Mohamed Ismael Rasool and their driver Abdurrahman Direkci were detained on 28 August 2015 when they…
Jacop Philip John Gingell Hanrahan
Diyarbakır - 2017
US-based Vice News reporter Jacop Philip John Gingell Hanrahan – trial for “financial aid for terrorism” and “propagandizing for a terrorist organization”
Vice news correspondent Jacop Philip John Gingell Hanrahan, cameraman Philipi John Pendlebury, their translator Mohamed Ismael Rasool and their driver Abdurrahman Direkci were detained on 28 August 2015 when they came to…
İsmail Saymaz
İstanbul - 2024
Disinformation investigation over allegations about the President – İsmail Saymaz
22 November 2024The Istanbul Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office has launched an ex officio investigation (i.e., initiated without a formal complaint) against journalist İsmail Saymaz on the charge of “publicly disseminating…
Fatih Altaylı
İstanbul - 2024
Disinformation investigation over allegations about the President – Fatih Altaylı
22 November 2024The Istanbul Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office has launched an ex officio investigation (i.e., initiated without a formal complaint) against journalist Fatih Altaylı on the charge of “publicly disseminating…
Ruşen Takva
Van - 2024
Disinformation investigation – Ruşen Takva
11 December 2024Journalist Ruşen Takva is under investigation on suspicion of “publicly disseminating misleading information” under Article 217/A of the Turkish Penal Code, over a social media post regarding Turkey’s…
Evren Demirdaş
Elazığ - 2024
Press freedom ruling instead of “disinformation” charge – Evren Demirdaş
18 December 2024The Elazığ Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office closed the case against Sözcü newspaper reporter Evren Demirdaş, who had been investigated for reporting on a road construction tender. The decision…
Seyhan Avşar
İstanbul - 2024
Investigation against Seyhan Avşar over post on journalists killed in Syria
22 December 2024The Istanbul Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office has launched an investigation against journalist Seyhan Avşar over a social media post. Referring to the killing of journalists Nazım Daştan and…
T24
İstanbul - 2024
Investigation against T24 over report on journalists killed in Syria
22 December 2024The Istanbul Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office has launched an investigation against the news website T24 over its report titled “Journalists Nazım Daştan and Cihan Bilgin killed in Syria.”…
Barış Pehlivan
İstanbul - 2024
Threat from Bahçeli against Halk TV journalist – Barış Pehlivan
1 October 2024 Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) Chair Devlet Bahçeli, during his parliamentary group speech, targeted Halk TV and four journalists for their coverage of the assassination of Sinan Ateş.…
Murat Ağırel
İstanbul - 2024
Threat from Bahçeli against Halk TV journalist – Murat Ağırel
1 October 2024 Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) Chair Devlet Bahçeli, in his parliamentary group address, targeted Halk TV and four journalists for their reporting on the Sinan Ateş assassination. He…
Şule Aydın
İstanbul - 2024
Threat from Bahçeli against Halk TV journalist – Şule Aydın
1 October 2024 Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) Chair Devlet Bahçeli, during his parliamentary group speech, targeted Halk TV and four journalists over their reporting on the assassination of Sinan Ateş.…
Timur Soykan
İstanbul - 2024
Threat from Bahçeli against Halk TV journalist – Timur Soykan
1 October 2024 Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) Chair Devlet Bahçeli, in his parliamentary group speech, targeted Halk TV and four journalists for reporting on the assassination of Sinan Ateş. He…
Sinan Aygül
Bitlis - 2024
Threat from Tatvan Mayor – Sinan Aygül
9 October 2024 The Bitlis Journalists’ Association announced that during a press conference held on 15 August, Tatvan Mayor and lawyer Mümin Erol issued threats and insults against the Association’s…
Şule Aydın
İstanbul - 2024
Sexual violence threat and harassment – Şule Aydın
11 October 2024Journalist and Halk TV presenter Şule Aydın reported via social media that she had received a threat involving sexual violence and filed a criminal complaint at the Kadıköy…
Muhammed Halitoğlu
Kars - 2024
Armed attack by MP’s brother – Muhammed Halitoğlu
12 October 2024Harun Çalkın, brother of AKP Kars MP Adem Çalkın, carried out an armed attack against Muhammed Halitoğlu, editor-in-chief of a Kars-based news website, allegedly in response to news…
Emre Kaplan
İstanbul - 2024
Physical assault after football match – Emre Kaplan
28 October 2024Following the Galatasaray–Beşiktaş football match in Istanbul, A Spor reporter Emre Kaplan was punched outside the stadium and taken to the hospital by ambulance. Sezgin Gülnar, the driver…
Hilal Köylü
Ankara - 2024
Verbal Attack by Devlet Bahçeli – Hilal Köylü
12 November 2024Journalist Hilal Köylü was verbally targeted by Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) leader Devlet Bahçeli after asking, “Is there a disagreement between you and Erdoğan?” The question was interpreted…
Hakan Sataroğlu
Balıkesir - 2024
Physical Assault by CHP Council Member – Hakan Sataroğlu
23 November 2024Hakan Sataroğlu, publisher of the Zeytin Efe newspaper in Burhaniye (Balıkesir), was attacked by CHP Municipal Council Member Nadir Bayram. Bayram slapped and punched the journalist while he…
Cuma Şahin
Çorum - 2024
Bodyguards of İYİ Party Chair Assault Journalist – Cuma Şahin
16 December 2024During İYİ Party Chair Müsavat Dervişoğlu’s visit to Çorum, the party’s bodyguards assaulted members of the press. Cuma Şahin, owner of Haberci19 news website, was attacked and injured…
Engin Erenler
Çorum - 2024
Bodyguards of İYİ Party Chair Assault Journalist – Engin Erenler
16 December 2024During İYİ Party Chair Müsavat Dervişoğlu’s visit to Çorum, the party’s bodyguards assaulted members of the press. Engin Erenler, owner of Çorum Net TV, was assaulted and injured…
Erkan Karaca
Çorum - 2024
Bodyguards of İYİ Party Chair Assault Journalist – Erkan Karaca
16 December 2024During İYİ Party Chair Müsavat Dervişoğlu’s visit to Çorum, the party’s bodyguards assaulted members of the press. Erkan Karaca, Editor-in-Chief of Leblebi TV, was attacked and injured while…
Volkan Sınayuç
Çorum - 2024
Bodyguards of İYİ Party Chair Assault Journalist – Volkan Sınayuç
16 December 2024During İYİ Party Chair Müsavat Dervişoğlu’s visit to Çorum, the party’s bodyguards assaulted members of the press. Volkan Sınayuç, a reporter for Çorum Haber newspaper, was physically attacked…
Halil Can Özeker
Çorum - 2024
Bodyguards of İYİ Party Chair Assault Journalist – Halil Can Özeker
16 December 2024During İYİ Party Chair Müsavat Dervişoğlu’s visit to Çorum, the party’s bodyguards assaulted members of the press. Halil Can Özeker, a reporter for İhlas News Agency (İHA), was…
Halk TV
İstanbul - 2024
Attack on Halk TV Headquarters
20 December 2024On 20 December 2024, an individual identified as Y.P. entered the premises of Halk TV in Istanbul’s Zeytinburnu district, verbally abusing staff with profane language and damaging broadcast…
