Case Monitoring
Court adjourns hearing of journalists Eylem Sonbahar and Sema Karakurt
Antalya – Trial where 17 people, including journalists Sema Karakurt and Eylem Sonbahar face “resisting the police” ...
Trial where journalist Oktay Candemir is accused of “propaganda” begins
Van – Trial where journalist Oktay Candemir faces “making terror propaganda” based on an indictment prepared two ...
Prosecutor requests punishment for Nurcan Kaya due to her tweet regarding Kobanê
Diyarbakır – The prosecutor presented their final opinion as to the accusations in the trial where human ...
Trial of journalist Dindar Karataş was adjourned until September
Van – The second hearing of the trial where journalist Dindar Karataş faces “membership in a terrorist ...
Arrest warrant for journalist Cengiz Çandar is lifted
İstanbul – Trial where journalist Cengiz Çandar and Kemal Işıktaş face “praising an offence and the offender” ...
Journalists İdris Sayılğan and Naci Kaya acquitted of “trespassing a military zone”
Edirne – Mesopotamia News Agency (MA) reporters İdris Sayılğan and Naci Kaya who are accused of “trespassing ...
Human Rights
Joint Statement: We are still here, we will always be here, we are not going anywhere either!
At this juncture in time, Turkey has been transformed into a country where demonization, accusation, pointing as ...
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 ...
Press Freedom
Upcoming Trials
Journalism and free speech trials: Week of June 21
This week several journalism and freedom of expression trials will resume at courts. Below is a list of this week’s hearings: 21 June ...
Journalism and free speech trials: Week of June 14
This week several journalism and freedom of expression trials will resume at courts. Below is a list ...
Journalism and free speech trials: Week of June 7
This week several journalism and freedom of expression trials will resume at courts. Below is a list ...
