Baris Pehlivan, a Turkish investigative journalist, spent 19 months in jail in 2011 after having being accused of terrorism based on documents found on his work computer. The government has also been criticized for its treatment of the Kurdish minority and other ethnic groups that have long complained about discrimination at work. Spencer and Szappanos drew several conclusions after studying Barış Pehlivan's computer. One of the experts said that they "had never seen a computer attacked as ferociously as Baris's. The attackers seemed to pull everything out of their bag of tricks".
Baris Pehlivan, a Turkish investigative journalist, spent 19 months in jail in 2011 after having being accused of terrorism based on documents found on his work computer. The government has also been criticized for its treatment of the Kurdish minority and other ethnic groups that have long complained about discrimination at work. One of the experts said that they "had never seen a computer attacked as ferociously as Baris's. The attackers seemed to pull everything out of their bag of tricks".