OdaTV (also known as Odatv.com, Odatv or oda<sup>TV</sup>), an online news portal based in Turkey, was founded in 2007. It is one of the most followed news portals in Turkey and according to the Alexa statistics, it is the 119th most visited website in the country (Turkey).
The portal was founded by Soner Yalçñn and Cüneyt ÃÂzdemir. ÃÂzdemir soon left after a difference of opinion. OdaTV was described in 2012 by the Committee to Protect Journalists as a portal which is "harshly critical of the government". In the early 2011, Odatv case was initiated as part of the Ergenekon trials, with OdaTV accused of being the "media arm" of the Ergenekon organization. Twelve of its journalists were under indictment in connection with the case, which Reporters without Borders has called "absurd". The court acquitted all journalists in April 2017 after the prosecutors failed to provide enough evidence.
On 2019, OdaTV writer Nihat Genç left the newspaper to found his own newspaper Veryansñn TV.
In February 2011, OdaTV's offices were raided and some of its staff were arrested (including the founder Soner Yalçñn and executive editor BarÃ±à  Pehlivan as well as news co-ordinator DoÃÂan Yurdakul, journalist BarÃ±à  TerkoÃÂlu) and accused of links with the Ergenekon organization. Odatv columnists Muhammet Sait ÃÂakñr, Coà Âkun Musluk and Müyesser UÃÂur were also charged.
Digital documents linking to the Ergenekon conspiracy are the basis of the case against BarÃ±à  TerkoÃÂlu, Ahmet à Âñk, Nedim à Âener and the other detainees in the OdaTV case. Examinations of the documents conducted by computer experts at BoÃÂaziçi University, Yñldñz Technical University, Middle East Technical University, and the American data processing company DataDevastation have refuted the validity of the documents, concluding that outside sources targeted the journalists' computers. Rare and malicious computer viruses, including Autorun-BJ and Win32:Malware-gen, allowed the placement of the documents to go unnoticed by the defendants. Another judicial report prepared by the governmental agency TÃÂBðTAK also confirmed the infection by malicious viruses but could not confirm or reject any outside intervention.
Digital forensics company Arsenal Consulting examined the OdaTV evidence and found that while the malware on BarÃ±à  Pehlivan's OdaTV computer was much more interesting than known prior to ArsenalâÂÂs involvement (e.g. the Ahtapot remote access trojan never seen before âÂÂin the wildâÂÂ), it was not responsible for delivery of the incriminating documents. The âÂÂAnchors in Relative Timeâ analysis technique was used to reveal a series of local (physical access) and remote (across the Internet) attacks against his computer. The final two local attacks (on the evenings of February 9 and 11, 2011) resulted in delivery of the incriminating documents to his computer, just prior to its seizure by the Turkish National Police. ArsenalâÂÂs work has been covered by Motherboard and a detailed case study is under ongoing development.