In 2004, Barış Pehlivan worked as a reporter at Kaçak Yayın Dergisi, an art magazine owned by the Leman Group.
Since 2007, Pehlivan is working as the executive editor for the online news website called OdaTV.com, founded by the investigative journalist Soner Yalçın.
He was arrested and kept in detention at Istanbul’s Silivri Prison[2] in connection with his work at odatv, accused of links to the Ergenekon organization.
[3] In September 2012, he was released pending trial following a judicial report confirming that the evidence collected against the journalist have probably been digitally forged and sent using a trojan horse to infect his computer.
[4] Subsequent analysis of Barış Pehlivan’s OdaTV computer by digital forensics company Arsenal Consulting revealed local attacks, which required physical access, were responsible for delivery of the incriminating documents.
[5] In September 2012, he was released pending trial following a judicial report confirming that the evidence collected against the journalist have probably been digitally forged and sent using a trojan horse to infect his computer.
On March 3, 2020, an investigation has been initiated against him due to a news published in Odatv about the funeral of the martyr of National Intelligence Agency (MIT) in Libya.
Organized crime bosses, convicted murderers and thieves, among other criminals, were freed from prison while journalists, lawyers and bloggers remained behind bars over so-called “terrorism” charges, as violations of the law as it pertains to MIT were removed from the “amnesty” regulation.
[14] The first trial of six journalists who reported on the funeral of a National Intelligence Organization (MİT) officer who was killed in Libya was held on 24 June 2020, at İstanbul.