Poet, writer and translator Erkut Tokman wrote a review for the Speak Up Platform on the autobiographical book of poet İlhan Sami Çomak, who has been deprived of his freedom for 27 years, “Not to Destroy the Ant’s Nest”
Poet, writer and translator Erkut Tokman wrote a review for the Speak Up Platform on the autobiographical book of poet İlhan Sami Çomak, who has been deprived of his freedom for 27 years, “Not to Destroy the Ant’s Nest”
Author Erdal Yıldırım was sentenced to prison for 1 year 6 months and 22 days with the crime of “terrorist organization propaganda” due to his social media posts. The Court did not suspend Yıldırım’s punishment
Yılmaz Odabaşı, who was on trial for “insulting the President” via his social media posts was sentenced to prison for 11 months and 20 days. The Court did not suspend Odabaşı’s punishment.
Musician Yılmaz Çelik, who was arrested after his concert in December 2019 and released about four months later, was acquitted in the trial in which he was charged with “being a member of a terrorist organization” and “propagandizing for a terrorist organization”
The court sentenced actress Nilüfer Aydan to 11 months and 20 days in prison on the grounds of her social media posts, and ruled the deferment of the announcement of the verdict.
The Speak Up Platform organized an event about poet İlhan Sami Çomak who has been in prison for 27 years within the scope of Kıraathane Book Fair with the participation of Burhan Sönmez and İpek Özel
A lawsuit was filed against Can Ataklı demanding his imprisonment up to 4 years and 8 months for insulting the president due to the statements he made during the ‘Gün Başlıyor’ programme on TELE 1
Mahmut Alınak, Kurdish writer and politician, was released at the first hearing of the case brought against him with a motion for life in imprisonment. Alınak had been in prison for two months