Case Monitoring
Court adjourns hearing of journalist Arif Aslan
Van – 11th hearing of the trial where journalist Arif Aslan faces “membership in a terrorist organization” ...
Court acquits journalist Oktay Candemir of “insulting the President” charges
Van – Third hearing of the trial where journalist Oktay Candemir faces “insulting the President” charges based ...
Court adjourns hearing of journalist Rüstem Batum until May
Fourth hearing of the trial where journalist Rüstem Batum faces “insulting the President” and “inciting the people ...
Court acquits journalist Erhan Akbaş
Van – The verdict in the case where journalist Erhan Akbaş faces charges of “membership in a ...
Court adjourns hearing of journalist Rüstem Batum
Trial of journalist Rüstem Batum resumed today at İstanbul 41st Criminal Court of First Instance. Batum faces ...
Court releases journalist Dindar Karataş
Erzurum – First hearing of the trial where journalist Dindar Karataş faces “membership in a terrorist organization” ...
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 March 8
This week several journalism and freedom of expression trials will resume at courts. Below is a list of this week’s hearings: 8 March ...
Journalism and free speech trials: Week of March 1
This week several journalism and freedom of expression trials will resume at courts. Below is a list ...
Journalism and free speech trials: Week of February 22
This week several journalism and freedom of expression trials will resume at courts. Below is a list ...
