Fikret Başkaya Case

Author Fikret Başkaya has been prosecuted for his article titled ‘The Real Terrorism is State Terrorism’ published on the website of Özgür Üniversite on 7th November 2016. Prosecutor’s office, accusing Başkaya of ‘organization propaganda’ in the indictment, argues that the dissemination of the ideas can be prevented, if not the idea itself. In other words, according to the prosecutor’s office people are ‘free’ to have thoughts as a biological action unless these are not ‘expressed and spread'(!)