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Week of Feb. 16: Freedom of expression trials and other developments
Trial Monitoring
21 February 2026
- This week, 36 people appeared before a judge...
Journalist Alican Uludağ: “I practiced journalism, I did not commit a crime”
Trial Monitoring
20 February 2026
Journalist Alican Uludağ was arrested by the Istanbul 9th Criminal Judgeship of Peace after bein...
Çetele: “Rojbash was banned because it is in Kurdish”
Blog
20 February 2026
The ban on the Kurdish-language film
Journalist İnan Ketenciler acquitted after Constitutional Court violation ruling
Hearing news
19 February 2026
Journalist İnan Ketenciler, who was prosecuted for...
Top court rules rights violated in ‘French agent’ news story case involving journalist Bülent Kılıç
Legal Unit
19 February 2026
Turkey’s Constitutional Court has ruled that journalist B...
Prosecutor seeks sentence in case filed on Minister Ersoy’s complaint
Hearing news
18 February 2026
A prosecutor on Wednesday sought a prison sentence for journalist Nisanur Yıldırım on ...
Appeals court upholds acquittal of journalist İsmail Arı, rejects Varank’s objection
Hearing news
18 February 2026
An appeals court in Istanbul uphol...
CHP youth leader sentenced to prison and ordered to pay damages within five days over ‘insult’ of Akın Gürlek
Hearing news
17 February 2026
- Cem Aydın, head of the youth branch of Turk...

