Case Monitoring
Trial of Cengiz Çandar’s tweet about the “girl with the red scarf” begins
Trial where journalist Cengiz Çandar and Kemal Işıktaş face “praising offence and the offender” charges based on ...
Court releases journalist Aziz Oruç
Ağrı – Third hearing where journalist Aziz Oruç is tried for “membership in a terrorist organization” based ...
Journalist Sabiha Temizkan receives 1 year 3 months prison sentence
İstanbul – Journalist Sabiha Temizkan’s final hearing where she faces “making terrorist propaganda” based on a 2014 ...
Deniz Yücel’s ‘insulting a public official’ case adjourned until Sep 2021
İstanbul – Third hearing of the trial where Die Welt journalist Deniz Yücel faces “insulting a public ...
Court imposes 500 TL fine over journalist Ketenciler, defers announcement of verdict
The trial where journalist İnan Ketenciler faces “disclosing private data” charges for videotaping a nightwatchman’s maltreatment of ...
Court acquits journalist Ayser Çınar of ‘propaganda’ at first hearing
Ankara – Hearing of journalist Ayser Çınar, where she faces “making terrorist propaganda” charges based on her ...
Human Rights
AKP’s Draft Bill on the Prevention of the Proliferation of WMD: “The final nail in the coffin of civil society”
Esra Koçak Mayda Ankara – On Wednesday December 16, the draft bill titled “Law on the Prevention ...
Unsolved III: ‘Coming together for truth and justice transcends borders’
The Media and Legal Studies Association (MLSA) organized its third “Unsolved” panel this year online on the ...
Joint Statement on the Bill for the Prevention of the Financing of the Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction
The 43-article “Bill for the Prevention of the Financing of the Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction”, ...
Speaking out in the void: Article 18 as a clamp on the ECtHR
ZELAL PELİN DOĞAN* The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has recently delivered two notable judgements on ...
Constitutional Court claims the pandemic is not a threat in prisons
The Constitutional Court (TCC) issued an interim decision regarding the application for the release of the journalists ...
Freedom House and MLSA hold roundtable on “collapse of rule of law” in Turkey
Freedom House and Media and Law Studies Association (MLSA) on 17 November held a roundtable discussion entitled ...
Press Freedom
Upcoming Trials
Journalism and free speech trials: Week of January 18
This week several journalism and freedom of expression trials will resume at courts. Below is a list of this week’s hearings: 18 January ...
Journalism and free speech trials: Week of January 11
This week several journalism and freedom of expression trials will resume at courts. Below is a list ...
Journalism and free speech trials: Week of December 28
This week several journalism and freedom of expression trials will resume at courts. Below is a list ...
