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Mehmet Akdoğan
Diyarbakır - 2018
Detention of Mehmet Akdoğan
Journalists Abdurrahman Gök, Esra Solin Dal and Lezgin Akdeniz (Mezopotamya news agency), Semiha Alankuş (Yeni Yaşam newspaper), Cihan Ölmez and Mehmet Akdoğan have been taken into custody as part of…
Murat Kazancı
İstanbul - 2018
Murat Kazancı – trial for “membership of an armed 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,…
Mehmet Aydoğmuş
İstanbul - 2018
Mehmet Aydoğmuş – trial for “membership of 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,…
Mehmet Bozkurt
İstanbul - 2018
Mehmet Bozkurt – trial for “knowingly and willingly aiding an armed terrorist organization as a non-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,…
Melis Alphan
İstanbul - 2018
Melis Alphan – investigation for “attempting to influence a fair trial”
Melis Alphan, a former columnist for daily Hürriyet, who has raised the judicial practices in child abuse cases, is under investigation for the suspicion of “attempting to Influence a Fair…
Nevzat Dindar
İstanbul - 2018
Nevzat Dindar forbidden to enter all facilities of Galatasaray Sports Club
Daily Milliyet’s reporter for sports news Nevzat Dindar was forbidden to enter the facilities of the Galatasaray Sports Club on the grounds that ‘fabricated news he published against the GS…
Mine Kırıkkanat
İstanbul - 2018
Mine Kırıkkanat – trial for “degrading a segment of society”
Istanbul Anatolian Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office initiated an investigation against Daily Cumhuriyet writer Mine Kırıkkanat with the allegation of “provoking the public to hatred, Hostility or degrading” due to her…
Nalin Öztekin
İstanbul - 2018
Threat against Nalin Öztekin
Nalin Öztekin, a reporter for the broadcaster Artı TV and online news website Artı Gerçek, received a threatening phone call from an anonymous caller. The threat came after Öztekin reported…
Nurcan Gökdemir
İstanbul - 2018
Nurcan Gökdemir – investigation for “insulting the President of Republic”
Istanbul Chief Prosecutor initiated an investigation against Ankara correspondent of daily BirGün Nurcan Gökdemir on the grounds of “insulting the President” due to her article about the son-in-law of President…
Oda TV
Siirt - 2018
Mufti Threatened News Website odaTV, Reminds Charlie Hebdo
Mufti of the Siirt province Ahmet Altıok, has threatened odaTV news website, reminding Charlie Hebdo massacre. Editor-in-Chief Pehlivan has said that they are targeted “because they are a website drawing…
Özgen Acar
İstanbul - 2015
Constitutional Court – Decision of “violation of freedom of expression and press” over an access block to Özgen Acar’s article
Sakarya 1. Peace Judgeship had had decided to block access to the article of Cumhuriyet Daily columnist Özgen Acar published in June 2015, concerning the insult of Hüseyin Avni Coş,…
Rojhat Doğru
Diyarbakır - 2018
Rojhat Doğru – trial for “membership of a terrorist organization” and “propagandizing for a terrorist organization”
Doğru was taken into custody in Istanbul as part of an investigation launched in Diyarbakır. At his defense he proffered to the 5th Criminal Judgeship of Peace of Diyarbakır on…
Sebla Küçük
İstanbul - 2018
Sebla Küçük – trial for “propagandizing for a terrorist organization”
Sebla Küçük, is standing trial with charge of “propagandizing for a terrorist organization” due to her social media posts about the Operation Olive Branch*. On November 22, she was acquitted…
Sendika.Org
İstanbul - 2018
62th access block on the Sendika.Org news website by the Information and Communication Technologies Authority (BTK)
Information and Communication Technologies Authority (BTK) blocked access on the sendika.org 62th time.
T24
İstanbul - 2018
Access block on 10 news articles by the request of Kalyon Company – T24
With the request of Kalyon Aviation and Construction Company, Beykoz Magistrates’ Court ordered access block for 10 news articles published in the websites of Hürriyet, Sözcü, Milli Gazete, and the…
Sözcü Daily Newspaper
İstanbul - 2018
Access block on 10 news articles by the request of Kalyon Company – Sözcü Daily
With the request of Kalyon Aviation and Construction Company, Beykoz Magistrates’ Court ordered access block for 10 news articles published in the websites of Hürriyet, Sözcü, Milli Gazete, and the…
Mynet
İstanbul - 2018
Access block on 10 news articles by the request of Kalyon Company – Mynet
With the request of Kalyon Aviation and Construction Company, Beykoz Magistrates’ Court ordered access block for 10 news articles published in the websites of Hürriyet, Sözcü, Milli Gazete, and the…
Milli Gazete
İstanbul - 2018
Access block on 10 news articles by the request of Kalyon Company – Milli Gazete
With the request of Kalyon Aviation and Construction Company, Beykoz Magistrates’ Court ordered access block for 10 news articles published in the websites of Hürriyet, Sözcü, Milli Gazete, and the…
Medyascope
İstanbul - 2018
Access block on 10 news articles by the request of Kalyon Company – Medyascope
With the request of Kalyon Aviation and Construction Company, Beykoz Magistrates’ Court ordered access block for 10 news articles published in the websites of Hürriyet, Sözcü, Milli Gazete, and the…
Mavi Kocaeli
İstanbul - 2018
Access block on 10 news articles by the request of Kalyon Company – Mavi Kocaeli
With the request of Kalyon Aviation and Construction Company, Beykoz Magistrates’ Court ordered access block for 10 news articles published in the websites of Hürriyet, Sözcü, Milli Gazete, and the…
Hürriyet Daily Newspaper
İstanbul - 2018
Access block on 10 news articles by the request of Kalyon Company – Hürriyet Daily
With the request of Kalyon Aviation and Construction Company, Beykoz Magistrates’ Court ordered access block for 10 news articles published in the websites of Hürriyet, Sözcü, Milli Gazete, and the…
Milli Gazete
İstanbul - 2018
Access block on 10 news articles by the request of Cengiz İnşaat – Milli Gazete
With the request of Cengiz İnşaat, the company of Cengiz Holding, Istanbul Anatolia 6th Criminal peace judgeships ruled access block for 10 news articles concerning the claims of corruption activity…
Medyascope
İstanbul - 2018
Access block on 10 news articles by the request of Cengiz İnşaat – medyascope
With the request of Cengiz İnşaat, the company of Cengiz Holding, Istanbul Anatolia 6th Criminal peace judgeships ruled access block for 10 news articles concerning the claims of corruption activity…
Mavi Kocaeli
İstanbul - 2018
Access block on 10 news articles by the request of Cengiz İnşaat – Mavi Kocaeli
With the request of Cengiz İnşaat, the company of Cengiz Holding, Istanbul Anatolia 6th Criminal peace judgeships ruled access block for 10 news articles concerning the claims of corruption activity…
Hürriyet Daily Newspaper
İstanbul - 2018
Access block on 10 news articles by the request of Cengiz İnşaat – Hürriyet Daily
With the request of Cengiz İnşaat, the company of Cengiz Holding, Istanbul Anatolia 6th Criminal peace judgeships ruled access block for 10 news articles concerning the claims of corruption activity…
T24
İstanbul - 2018
Access block on 10 news articles by the request of Cengiz İnşaat – T24
With the request of Cengiz İnşaat, the company of Cengiz Holding, Istanbul Anatolia 6th Criminal peace judgeships ruled access block for 10 news articles concerning the claims of corruption activity…
Servet Öner
İstanbul - 2018
Detention of Servet Öner
The former editor of the monthly political magazine Demokratik Modernite Servet Öner has been taken into custody in her house in the district of Beyoğlu in İstanbul as part of…
Tamer Arda Erşin
Ankara - 2018
Tamer Arda Erşin – trial over news article titled “Ankara’nın göbeğinde cemaat mi yetiştirilecek?”
Minister of Youth and Sport sued a file against the reporter for Anayurt Newspaper Tamer Arda Erşin concerning his news article titled “Ankara’nın göbeğinde cemaat mi yetiştirilecek?” (22 November 2018).…
Ömer Ağın
İstanbul - 2017
Özgür Gündem Trial for “propagandasing for a terrorist organization”, “praising offence and offender”, “inciting the committing of crimes via press” – Ömer Ağın
In the lawsuit filed against 13 journalists and writers on charge of “propagandizing for a terrorist organization” for having participated in the “Editors-in-Chief on Watch” campaign in solidarity with the…
Yüksel Oğuz
İstanbul - 2017
Özgür Gündem Trials: The Editors-in-Chief on Watch Campaign – “propagandasing for a terrorist organization”, “praising offence and offender”, “inciting the committing of crimes via press” – Yüksel Oğuz
In the lawsuit filed against 13 journalists and writers on charge of “propagandizing for a terrorist organization” for having participated in the “Editors-in-Chief on Watch” campaign in solidarity with the…
Reyhan Çapan
İstanbul - 2018
The trial of Journalist Reyhan Çapan – “propogandising for a terrorist organization”
Reyhan Çapan, the former editor-in-chief of Özgür Gündem daily newspaper, which was closed by a statutory decree, has been arrested in Artvin. She was previously sentenced to 1 year and…
Erdoğan Alayumat
Gaziantep - 2017
Dihaber Correspondent Erdoğan Alayumat – the trial for “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…
Doğan Baran
İzmir - 2018
Editor- in-chief of Odak Magazine Doğan Baran – the trial for “propagandising for a terrorist organization”
Doğan Baran, the editor-in-chief of Odak magazine, who was arrested in İzmir in May 2018, for the execution of finalized sentences. He was released from Edirne F Type Prison within…
Turan Ababey
İstanbul - 2018
The owner of daily Karşı, Turan Ababey – “knowingly and willingly aiding an armed terrorist organization as a non-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,…
All media
Hakkari - 2018
Broadcasting ban on fatal explosion at a military base in Şemdinli
On 9 November 2018, Şemdinli Magistrates’ Court ruled broadcasting ban on fatal explosion at a military base in Şemdinli.
T24
İstanbul - 2018
Blocking access to 76 news articles published in websites of Hürriyet, Sözcü and Yeni Mesaj newspapers and news websites such as T24, Patronlar Dünyası and Odatv – T24
With the request of Ahmet Çalık, the chair of the board of Çalık Holding, Fifth Chamber of the Criminal Court of Peace in Bakırköy ruled access block for 76 news…
Salih Turan
İstanbul - 2019
The trial against Journalist Salih Turan for the charges of “propagandising for a terrorist organisation”
Journalist Salih Turan, who was charged with “propagandising for a terrorist organisation” for tweeting in Kurdish was arrested on February 12, 2019. Turan was released after 40 days in prison.…
Zafer Özcan
İstanbul - 2019
Arrest of Former Bugün columnist and Zaman daily reporter Zafer Özcan over links to the Gülen movement
Former senior economy editor Zafer Özcan (45) was arrested in western Akhisar province on Thursday, on March 8. Two arrest warrants have had been issued by two different courts for…
Çağdaş Büyükbaş
İstanbul - 2017
The trial of Çağdaş Büyükbaş, the director of Monthly “Proleter Devrimci Duruş” magazine, for “propagandising for a terrorist organisation”
Çağdaş Büyükbaş, the director of Monthly “Proleter Devrimci Duruş” magazine, was sentenced to 1 year and 10 months due to his articles published in the magazine and he was arrested…
Steve Sweeney
İstanbul - 2019
Deportation of Morning Star international editor Steve Sweeney
Morning Star editor Steve Sweeney was detained on his arrival to Turkey by Turkish police and held overnight before being deported on March, 29. He was aiming to report on…
Ayşenur Arslan
Eskişehir - 2019
The detention of Ayşenur Arslan
Ayşenur Arslan, journalist affiliated with the Halk TV, has been detained in Eskişehir province. Journalist stated that the detention was related to the an prosecution carried out by the Ankara…
Semra Turan
Tunceli - 2019
Semra Turan, the Tunceli reporter for Mezopotamya, was taken into custody twice
Turan, the Tunceli reporter for Mezopotamya, was taken into custody after the police search and taken to the Provincial Security Directorate, on March 6. Then she was released. On March…
Ahmet Kanbal
Mardin - 2019
Detention of Jinnews reporter Ahmet Kanbal, while covering hunger strikes
Police detained and questioned two journalists covering an event outside Mardin Prison on March 20, Mezopotamya News Agency reported. Ahmet Kanbal, a reporter for Mezopotamya, and Rojda Aydın, a reporter…
Rojda Aydın
Mardin - 2019
Detention of Jinnews reporter, Rojda Aydın while covering hunger strikes
Police detained and questioned two journalists covering an event outside Mardin Prison on March 20, Mezopotamya News Agency reported. Ahmet Kanbal, a reporter for Mezopotamya, and Rojda Aydın, a reporter…
Derya Okatan
İstanbul - 2019
Detention of Journalist Derya Okatan
Artı Gerçek TV reporter Derya Okatan was detained on February 21 during a morning raid by the police. After searching the journalist’s home, the police took him to the Anti-Terror…
Hevidar Ödüngit
Diyarbakır - 2019
The detention of Jinnews reporter Hevidar Ödüngit
Hevidar Ödüngit and Beritan Canözer, Beritan Elyakut who were detained in the evening on 20 January in Diyarbakır, were released after their statements were taken at the Anti-Terror bureau.
Coşkun Sağlamdin
Nevşehir - 2019
Reporting on the unlicensed buildings constructed in Göreme National Park, İhlas News Agency (İHA) Reporter Coşkun Sağlamdin was threatened with death
Reporting on the unlicensed buildings constructed in Göreme National Park, which is on the UNESCO World Heritage List, İhlas News Agency (İHA) Reporter Coşkun Sağlamdin was threatened with death by…
İrfan Değirmenci
İstanbul - 2019
Attack on journalists – İrfan Değirmenci was assaulted while reporting a news at the stalls set up by the municipality
Journalist İrfan Değirmenci was attacked in İstanbul on February 11, while he was trying to interview the people waiting in the line to buy vegetables sold at the stalls set…
Murat Gürkan
Aydın - 2019
Attack on Murat Gürkan
Journalist Murat Gürkan was assaulted due to a news reported on Aydın-based Nazillipost website on December 21, 2018. Making a statement on the attack, Journalists’ Association of Nazilli (TGC) indicated…
Suat Karagöz
Van - 2018
The investigation started against journalist Suat Karagöz
As part of an investigation regarding “membership in a terrorist organistion [PKK]” launched by the Public Prosecutor’s Office of Van province, journalist Suat Karagöz has been taken into custody at…
