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Metin Bekiroğlu
Diyarbakır
Metin Bekiroğlu – trial for “propagandizing for a terrorist organization”
The reporter Metin Bekiroğlu for the closed Dicle News Agency (DİHA) is standing on a trial at the Diyarbakır 9th Heavy Penal Court over his social media articles for “propagandising…
Mehmet Ali Ertaş
Diyarbakır - 2017
Mehmet Ali Ertaş – trial for “openly degrading the state”, “propagandizing for a terrorist organization”
The Diyarbakır 9th Heavy Penal Court sentenced Mezopotamya Agency (MA) editor, Mehmet Ali Ertaş to 1 year and 3 months of imprisonment for “Degrading Turkish Nation, State of Turkish Republic,…
Bizim FM
2017
Constitutional Court – Decision on Bizim FM
On August 19, 2017, the Constitutional Court decided that the rejection of the request for a rebroadcasting of Bizim FM radio had failed to ensure effective pluralism of the media…
Beyaz TV
İstanbul - 2018
Administrative fine on Beyaz TV by RTÜK
RTÜK issued an administrative fine to Beyaz TV for “publicly degrading the religious values of a section of the public” on August 15, 2018 on the grounds that Kenan Oktar,…
Bülent Özdoğan
İstanbul - 2019
Bülent Özdoğan – lawsuit filed by Kayseri Mayor
The Istanbul 2nd Criminal Court of First Instance sentenced the former managing editors of Cumhuriyet newspaper Faruk Eren and Bülent Özdoğan to pay a total of 84 thousand TL although…
Faruk Eren
İstanbul - 2019
Faruk Eren – lawsuit filed by Kayseri Mayor
The Istanbul 2nd Criminal Court of First Instance sentenced the former managing editors of Cumhuriyet newspaper Faruk Eren and Bülent Özdoğan to pay a total of 84 thousand TL although…
Fatih Portakal
İstanbul - 2019
Fatih Portakal – investigation for “membership of FETÖ”
The Bakırköy Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office has launched an investigation against Fox TV anchor Fatih Portakal for being allegedly a member to a terrorist organization due to texting with Ekrem…
Reyhan Çapan
İstanbul - 2019
Judicial fine on Reyhan Çapan
On March 7, Istanbul 2nd Criminal Court of First instance sentences Former Editor-In-Chief Eren Keskin and former managing editor Reyhan Çapan to fines of TL 10416 (7 March) due to…
Eren Keskin
İstanbul - 2019
Judicial fine on Eren Keskin
On March 7, Istanbul 2nd Criminal Court of First instance sentences Former Editor-In-Chief Eren Keskin and former managing editor Reyhan Çapan to fines of TL 10416 (7 March) due to…
Tagesspiegel
İstanbul - 2019
Tagesspiegel correspondent allowed to participate in the EU-Turkey High-Level Economic Dialogue meeting
Some European journalists were barred from taking part in a press conference held in Istanbul in February 2019 since their accreditations were not extended although they have had applied well…
ZDF
2019
ZDF correspondent was not allowed to participate in the EU-Turkey High-Level Economic Dialogue meeting
Some European journalists were barred from taking part in a press conference held in Istanbul in February 2019 since their accreditations were not extended although they have had applied well…
Süddeutsche Zeitung
İstanbul - 2019
Süddeutsche Zeitung correspondent was not allowed to participate in the EU-Turkey High-Level Economic Dialogue meeting
Some European journalists were barred from taking part in a press conference held in Istanbul in February 2019 since their accreditations were not extended although they have had applied well…
ARD Radio
İstanbul - 2019
ARD radio correspondent was not allowed to participate in the EU-Turkey High-Level Economic Dialogue meeting
Some European journalists were barred from taking part in a press conference held in Istanbul in February 2019 since their accreditations were not extended although they have had applied well…
All media
İstanbul - 2019
publication and broadcast ban on the news regarding the military helicopter crash
Upon the request of the İstanbul Anatolian Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office, the Anatolian 3rd Penal Court of Peace has imposed a publication and broadcast ban on the news regarding the…
Aydın Engin
İstanbul - 2016
Case of Cumhuriyet Newspaper – Aydın Engin
Verdict has been rendered in Cumhuriyet trial: 15 people have been sentenced in total to 81 years and 45 days in prison, three people have been acquitted. Files of Can…
Pelin Ünker
İstanbul - 2018
Pelin Ünker – Lawsuit for damages over Paradise Papers
Orhan Erinç, the chair of the Cumhuriyet Foundation, and the newspaper’s Economics Correspondent and Finance Editor Pelin Ünker are accused of “attacking personal rights” due to the “Paradise Papers” articles…
Orhan Erinç
İstanbul - 2018
Lawsuit against Orhan Erinç, the chair of the Cumhuriyet Foundation due to articles on Paradise Papers
Orhan Erinç, the chair of the Cumhuriyet Foundation, and the newspaper’s Economics Correspondent and Finance Editor Pelin Ünker are accused of “attacking personal rights” due to the “Paradise Papers” articles…
Nuri Akman
Gaziantep - 2017
Dihaber Correspondent Nuri Akman is on trial for the charges of “espionage” and “membership in a terrorist organisation”
Erdoğan Alayumat, a local reporter for Dihaber based in Hatay, has been in custody for more than six months. He and his younger colleague Nuri Akman, who was released on…
Kutlu Esendemir
İstanbul - 2018
The co-owner of daily Karşı, Kutlu Esendemir – “aiding a terrorist group without being its member”
The “Karşı newspaper trial,” where 12 defendants, including the former publisher of the shuttered daily, Turan Ababey, and the newspaper’s former employees, including its one-time editor in chief Eren Erdem,…
Onur Kala
İstanbul - 2018
The Co-owner of daily Karşı Onur Kala – “membership in a terrorist organization”
The “Karşı newspaper trial,” where 12 defendants, including the former publisher of the shuttered daily, Turan Ababey, and the newspaper’s former employees, including its one-time editor in chief Eren Erdem,…
Ufuk Emin Köroğlu
İstanbul - 2016
Daily Karşı correspondent Ufuk Emin Köroğlu is on trial for “membership in a terrorist organisation” and “disclosing the identities of public officials who have taken part in the fight against terrorism”
The “Karşı newspaper trial,” where 12 defendants, including the former publisher of the shuttered daily, Turan Ababey, and the newspaper’s former employees, including its one-time editor in chief Eren Erdem,…
Alican Uludağ
İstanbul - 2017
Alican Uludağ on Trial for “breaching of the confidentiality of an investigation” 2
Cumhuriyet Daily reporter Alican Uludağ was sentenced to ten months of imprisonment due to the news article published on March 20, 2017 with the title, “Yes-sayer Prosecutor atFETÖ meeting.” Istanbul…
Nazlı Ilıcak
İstanbul - 2019
Journalist Nazlı Ilıcak is standing trial for “disclosure of confidential information”
In January 2018, the Ankara Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office issued a new indictment against Ilıcak, accusing the journalist of “Disclosure of Information Which Must be Kept Confidential” as per Article…
Fatih Polat
İstanbul - 2019
Fatih Polat – trial for “insulting the President of the Republic”
Journalist Fatih Polat stands trial for “insulting the president of Republic” charges because of his column published in Evrensel on 28 May 2017 titled “Do the respondents have anything to…
Çağrı Sarı
İstanbul - 2019
Çağrı Sarı – trial for “insult and libel”
On November 8 and 9, 2017, Evrensel newspaper published two articles entitled “Albayrak and His Brother Come up in Paradise Papers As Well” and “Paradise Papers: Paradise for Them, Inferno…
Hasan Şanlı
İstanbul - 2017
Özgür Gündem Trials: The Editors-in-Chief on Watch Campaign – Hasan Şanlı
The Editors-in-Chief on Watch campaign of Özgür Gündem daily had begun on May 3, 2016 and ended on August 7, 2016. Daily was closed through the Statutory Decree No. 675…
Nevin Erdemir
İstanbul - 2017
Özgür Gündem Trials: The Editors-in-Chief on Watch Campaign – Nevin Erdemir
The Editors-in-Chief on Watch campaign of Özgür Gündem daily had begun on May 3, 2016 and ended on August 7, 2016. Daily was closed through the Statutory Decree No. 675…
Hakkı Boltan
İstanbul - 2017
Özgür Gündem Trials: The Editors-in-Chief on Watch Campaign – Hakkı Boltan
The Editors-in-Chief on Watch campaign of Özgür Gündem daily had begun on May 3, 2016 and ended on August 7, 2016. Daily was closed through the Statutory Decree No. 675…
Reyhan Çapan
İstanbul - 2017
Özgür Gündem Trials: The Editors-in-Chief on Watch Campaign – Reyhan Çapan
The Editors-in-Chief on Watch campaign of Özgür Gündem daily had begun on May 3, 2016 and ended on August 7, 2016. Daily was closed through the Statutory Decree No. 675…
Eren Keskin
İstanbul - 2017
Özgür Gündem Trials: The Editors-in-Chief on Watch Campaign – Eren Keskin
The Editors-in-Chief on Watch campaign of Özgür Gündem daily had begun on May 3, 2016 and ended on August 7, 2016. Daily was closed through the Statutory Decree No. 675…
Derya Okatan
İstanbul - 2017
Özgür Gündem Editor-in-Chief on Watch Derya Okatan – trial for “publishing the statements of a terrorist organization”
The Editors-in-Chief on Watch campaign of Özgür Gündem daily had begun on May 3, 2016 and ended on August 7, 2016. Daily was closed through the Statutory Decree No. 675…
Dicle Anter
İstanbul - 2017
Özgür Gündem Editor-in-Chief on Watch Dicle Anter – trial for “publishing the statements of a terrorist organization”
The Editors-in-Chief on Watch campaign of Özgür Gündem daily had begun on May 3, 2016 and ended on August 7, 2016. Daily was closed through the Statutory Decree No. 675…
Faruk Balıkçı
İstanbul - 2017
Özgür Gündem Editor-in-Chief on Watch Faruk Balıkçı – trial for “publishing the statements of a terrorist organization”
The Editors-in-Chief on Watch campaign of Özgür Gündem daily had begun on May 3, 2016 and ended on August 7, 2016. Daily was closed through the Statutory Decree No. 675…
Kumru Başer
İstanbul - 2017
Özgür Gündem Editor-in-Chief on Watch Kumru Başer – trial for “propagandizing for a terrorist organization”
The Editors-in-Chief on Watch campaign of Özgür Gündem daily had begun on May 3, 2016 and ended on August 7, 2016. Daily was closed through the Statutory Decree No. 675…
Ayşe Batumlu
İstanbul - 2017
Özgür Gündem Editor-in-Chief on Watch Ayşe Batumlu – trial for “propagandizing for a terrorist organization”
The Editors-in-Chief on Watch campaign of Özgür Gündem daily had begun on May 3, 2016 and ended on August 7, 2016. Daily was closed through the Statutory Decree No. 675…
Hasan Cemal
İstanbul - 2017
Özgür Gündem Editor-in-Chief on Watch Hasan Cemal – trial for “propagandizing for a terrorist organization”
The Editors-in-Chief on Watch campaign of Özgür Gündem daily had begun on May 3, 2016 and ended on August 7, 2016. Daily was closed through the Statutory Decree No. 675…
Murat Uyurkulak
İstanbul - 2017
Özgür Gündem Editor-in-Chief on Watch Murat Uyurkulak – trial for “propagandizing for a terrorist organization”
The Editors-in-Chief on Watch campaign of Özgür Gündem daily had begun on May 3, 2016 and ended on August 7, 2016. Daily was closed through the Statutory Decree No. 675…
Nadire Mater
İstanbul - 2017
Özgür Gündem Trials: The Editors-in-Chief on Watch Campaign – Nadire Mater
The Editors-in-Chief on Watch campaign of Özgür Gündem daily had begun on May 3, 2016 and ended on August 7, 2016. Daily was closed through the Statutory Decree No. 675…
Yıldırım Türker
İstanbul - 2017
Özgür Gündem Editor-in-Chief on Watch Yıldırım Türker – trial for “propagandizing for a terrorist organization”
The Editors-in-Chief on Watch campaign of Özgür Gündem daily had begun on May 3, 2016 and ended on August 7, 2016. Daily was closed through the Statutory Decree No. 675…
Deniz Kılıç
Batman - 2019
The former Batman representative for Azadiya Welat newspaper Deniz Kılıç is on trial – “propagandising for a terrorist organisation”
The 2nd High Criminal Court of Batman sentenced the former representative of now-closed Azadiya Welat newspaper by decree-law, Deniz Kılıç to 3 years 1 month and 15 days of imprisonment…
Mehmet Fırat Öksüz
Mersin - 2019
Detention of Mezopotamya News Agency reporter, Mehmet Fırat Öksüz
On November 26, 2019, raids were carried out to many addresses including Mesopotamia Agency (MA) reporter Mehmet Fırat Öksüz in Mersin. Many people were detained during the raids. Öksüz, who…
Medina Gümüş
Adana - 2019
An investigation against journalist Medina Gümüş
The police raided the house of journalist Medina Gümüş at around 04.40 a.m. today (November 21), as part of an investigation by Adana Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office. While Gümüş could…
Yalçın Ergündoğan
Ankara - 2018
ECtHR – Decision on Yalçın Ergündoğan
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) ruled that columnist Yalçın Ergündoğan’s right to freedom of expression was violated on 17 April 2017 due to a fine he sentenced for…
Fox TV
İstanbul - 2018
Broadcast suspension of FOX TV by RTÜK
Upon the initiative of President Erdoğan’s lawyer, the Radio and Television Supreme Council (RTÜK) has imposed a penalty of broadcast suspension for three days and an administrative fine on FOX…
Zeki Erden
Şanlıurfa
Zeki Erden – trial for “membership of a terrorist organization”
The journalist for Özgürlük Demokrasi Newspaper Zeki Erden was sent into court house of Urfa after he was taken into custody for 14 days on the claim of “membership in…
Hakan Gence
Ankara - 2018
Overturn of lawsuit for damages against Hakan Gence
The Supreme Court of Appeals on January 29, 2018, rescinded a 2014 court decision which ruled that journalist Perihan Mağden and reporter Hakan Gence pays TL 5,000 each in compensation…
Ahmet Takan
Ankara - 2019
Physical attack against journalist Ahmet Takan
Ahmet Takan, a columnist for Korkusuz newspaper, was attacked in front of his house in Dikmen, Ankara yesterday (November 20). A person in his late twenties hit Takan on the…
Fikret Başkaya
Ankara - 2019
Fikret Başkaya is on trial – Propagandising for a terrorist organisation
Writer and academic Fikret Başkaya put on trial for the charge of “Propagandising for a terrorist organisation” over an article published online on the website of Özgür Üniversite (The Free…
İdris Yılmaz
Van - 2018
Journalist Idris Yilmaz is standing trial for “membership of an illegal organisation”
Journalist Idris Yilmaz, was standing trial on charges of “membership to an illegal organization” because of news articles he wrote. The 5th High Criminal Court of Van sentenced him to…
Ahmet Altan
İstanbul
Ahmet Altan on Trial: “Violating the confidentiality of an investigation”
Altan is accused of “attempting to influence a fair trial” and “violating the confidentiality of an investigation” due to his article called “Who is out of the Mafia?” published on…
