Fatih Ergin, news coordinator for the left-wing nationalist daily Nefes, is in prison pending trial after he was arrested in Istanbul in late September 2026 on suspicion of spreading disinformation.
Ergin was taken into police custody on September 27, his lawyer posted on X. Local media said his arrest a day later was related to a post on X referring to the death of Turgay Tamer, a doctor who was briefly detained this month as part of a reopened investigation into the 2011 death in custody of former Turkish intelligence operative Kaşif Kozinoğlu.
Ergin identified Tamer as a forensic expert in his post on X but later corrected himself, and said he was a prison campus doctor.
This was the second arrest in September 2026 of a journalist in relation to the reopened Kozinoğlu investigation. On September 12, Selahattin Günday, a former broadcast reporter for the now closed Doğan News Agency (DHA), was arrested on suspicion of exposing an intelligence operative and illegally obtaining personal data while reporting on Kozinoğlu in 2011.
CPJ emailed Turkey’s Justice Ministry for comment but did not receive a reply.