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
The Constitutional Court ruled that the 2-year prison sentence given to Kadri Pervane for listening to a Kurdish song with high volume on the public bus he was driving in Diyarbakır is lawful. The ruling stated that Pervane’s “right to freedom of speech was not violated” due to this song, which was deemed as a “terrorist organization propaganda
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”
Jinnews reporter Beritan Canözer was sentenced to 1 year, 10 months, and 15 days in prison for “spreading terrorist organization propaganda” in her social media posts
Diyarbakır 8th Assize Court insisted on its sentence of 3 years and 9 months for Azad Bedran, charged with ‘propaganda for a terrorist organization’, despite the appeals court’s reversal of his conviction
In Turkey, directors of the documentary movie Bakur (North) were sentenced to 4 years and 6 months in prison. This marked one of the harshest penalties imposed so far over the allegation of “disseminating terrorist group propaganda”. Speak Up Platform prepared a timeline of the Bakur trial and the developments surrounding it