BİA Media Monitoring Report: Violations Continued in July-September 2026 Period

According to the BİA Media Monitoring report, while censorship and arrests targeting journalists continued during the July-August-September 2026 period, the report included judicial processes in the murder case files of Uğur Mumcu, Musa Anter, and Hrant Dink, as well as the status of journalists arrested in the last three months on charges of disinformation and other accusations.

The BİA Media Monitoring report revealed that pressure and censorship practices targeting journalists continued during the July-August-September 2026 period. The family and lawyers of Uğur Mumcu demanded that Oğuz Demir, identified as the perpetrator regarding the journalist's assassination in a bomb attack in front of his Ankara home on January 24, 1993, be effectively searched for and apprehended. While the Mumcu Family requested a meeting with Minister of Justice Akın Gürlek following his statements, it was reported that the hearing of the case at the Ankara Assize Court will continue on December 2.

Rahşan Yorozlu, the daughter of Kurdish journalist and author Musa Anter, initiated legal action to reopen the case file regarding her father's assassination in Diyarbakır in 1992, which was dropped due to the statute of limitations after 30 years. On the other hand, the report stated that at least seven journalists were arrested within the last three months on allegations of publicly disseminating misleading information, opposing the MIT Law, and LGBT propaganda. Among the arrested names were Fatih Ergin, Tuğba Tekerek, Ali Tarakcı, Selahattin Günday, Oya Lale Arslan, İrem Delice, and Fatma Sibel Gürcihan, while it was conveyed that TELE1 Editor-in-Chief Merdan Yanardağ was not released in the investigation conducted on charges of political espionage.