I’m Ali Safa Korkut.

Since 2020, I have been working in investigative journalism, data journalism, and long-form reporting. I report on a wide range of political, social, and media-related issues in Turkey, with a particular focus on stories that reveal power relations, document rights violations, and bring attention to experiences that often receive little space in mainstream media.

My reporting covers a broad range of subjects, including press freedom, freedom of expression, digital rights, politics, censorship, gender, migration, labor, technology, and the changing media landscape. Rather than limiting myself to a single area, I am especially interested in where these issues intersect. Questions such as how political decisions affect everyday life, how restrictions on rights reshape journalism and public debate, and how social and technological changes create new forms of inequality, control, and resistance are at the heart of my reporting.

I produce investigative stories, data-driven journalism, interviews, and long-form reports. I see journalism not only as a way of reporting current events, but also as a practice of witnessing and documenting them. For me, journalism is also a way to preserve information, contribute to public memory, and make visible developments that might otherwise disappear from collective memory.

Over time, digital rights and internet censorship have also become an important area of expertise in my journalism. As pressure on press freedom and freedom of expression has increased in Turkey, I began working more systematically on access restrictions, online censorship, access to information, platform governance and data, as well as the legal and administrative mechanisms that shape the digital public sphere.

Between August 2022 and December 2024, I worked as a project coordinator and editor at the Media and Law Studies Association (MLSA). During this period, I coordinated and edited the Free Web Turkey project, where I monitored court-ordered access restrictions targeting news articles, websites, social media posts, accounts, and other forms of digital content.

As part of this work, I developed a systematic method for monitoring and documenting access restrictions in order to identify which authorities issued the decisions, when they were issued, what content they targeted, and the reasons behind them. Since a significant number of these court rulings are not publicly available or easily accessible in Turkey, I regularly carried out digital monitoring, URL tracking, content comparison, legal document research, and archiving.

Through this work, I built a database documenting access restrictions on hundreds of thousands of URLs, with detailed information on individual censorship decisions. Using this data, I produced news stories, investigative reports, and annual reports examining the scale of online censorship in Turkey and how it operates.

I left my position at MLSA in December 2024 and have been working independently ever since. Aposto, Fayn, Expression Interrupted, Journo, P24, and Teyit are among the digital publications for which I have produced original reporting and investigative stories during this period.

My work has also appeared in the digital and print publications of professional organizations such as the Journalists’ Union of Turkey (TGS) and the Journalists’ Association. I have also worked with organizations including the Istanbul Bar Association and the International Press Institute (IPI).

Alongside my independent investigations and long-form reporting projects, I continue to run Veriler Ne Diyor?, a news platform I founded in August 2025 with a focus on data journalism.

If you would like to collaborate, discuss a story, or get in touch about my work, you can reach me at aliskorkut [at] proton [dot] me.

Below, you can find the publications where my news stories, investigations, and long-form reports have appeared. Click on each publication to view my work.