Defendants: Can Dündar, İnan Kızılkaya Media Outlet and Position: Özgür Gündem – Editor-in-chief, Managing Editor Accusations: Insulting a public official because of his duty Possible sentence:   – Court: İstanbul 2. Criminal Court Case Background: İnan Kızılkaya, the managing editor of now-stuttered pro-Kurdish Özgür Gündem, and Can Dündar, who worked as a guest editor-in-chief for Özgür Gündem for one […]

Media outlet: – Accusations: Membership of a terrorist organization

Position: Journalist & Documentary Directors Accusations: Spreading terrorist propaganda   Case Background: Journalist Ertuğrul Mavioğlu and Çayan Demirel, who is the director of a documentary called “A Guerilla Documentary: Bakur” are being charged with “making terrorist propaganda” on the documentary which was screened in 2015. Documentary Bakur, which means “north” in Kurdish, which is the basis […]

Media Outlet: Dicle News Agency – DİHA (Reporter) Accusations: Spreading terrorist propaganda  

Defendants: Ersin Çaksu, Aziz Oruç (Separated case) Media Outlet and Position: Özgürlükçü Demokrasi – Reporters, columnists, editors Accusations: Denigration the Turkish nation and the state Possible sentence: – Court: İstanbul 2. Criminal Court Case Background: Six journalists and editors of now-closed pro-Kurdish Özgürlükçü Demokrasi newspaper are being prosecuted over 20 different articles published in the daily […]