[5] Baran was placed in detention for 13 days by Turkish Authorities for disseminating the propaganda of a terrorist organization and insulting President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in 2017.

Baran claimed that he had been heavily tortured, and that 16 other people related to PAKURD (including his brother) were also in prison.

[4] The court ruled in his favour, ordering the government to pay him TL 20,000 ($2,790) in damages.

[6] In 2020, Baran republished a collection of poems, in a volume known as Sular Divanı,[3] previously released in 2005.

His previous works include Esmer Tenli Irmak Düşleri (2002)[1] In 2021, Baran was sentenced to 3 years and six months by a court in Urfa for "incitement against the Turkish nation, the Republic of Turkey, institutions and state body", concerning about 30 tweets and articles by Baran.