A high criminal court rejected an appeal filed on 3 November by lawyer Taylan Arı against the detention of BirGün reporter İsmail Arı. In its three-paragraph decision, the court said the charge was among the catalog offenses listed in Article 100/3 of the Code of Criminal Procedure. Lawyer Arı said the offense under Article 217/A of the Turkish Penal Code—publicly disseminating misleading information—for which his client had been arrested was not on that list and that the other grounds in the decision were also not made concrete. Arı, who voluntarily went to the Ankara Police Department to give a statement following a complaint by former RTÜK Chair Ebubekir Şahin, was detained there and arrested on 21 October. Prosecutors sought up to five years in prison for Arı, and his hearing in Ankara was scheduled for 19 November. Arı had also spent 75 days in prison during a previous detention in March.
6 November 2026
Cumhuriyet