Journalist Alican Uludağ appeared before Ankara 59th Criminal Court of First Instance for the first time over his sharing on X of an expert report on the collapse of a building in Gebze on 29 October 2025 that killed four people. Prosecutors charged Uludağ with publicly disseminating misleading information over his post dated 3 November 2025. Uludağ said the report showed that the building had collapsed because of negligence stemming from metro-station construction and that he had reported it to inform the public. Uludağ submitted the report to the court and requested that Transport and Infrastructure Minister Abdulkadir Uraloğlu be heard as a witness and that the Gebze Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office investigation file on the building collapse be obtained. After the prosecutor requested time to prepare an opinion, the court adjourned the hearing until 10:15 on 25 March 2027.
5 November 2026
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