MEDIA MONITORING DATABASE
Burak Şahin – trial for “insulting the President of the Republic”
RELATED PERSON OR INSTITUTION
Burak Şahin
CITY
İstanbul
YEAR OF INTERFERENCE
2021
LAST UPDATED
03/02/2021
TYPE OF STATEMENT
Political
MEDIUM
Internet
Internet News Portal
THE TITLE OF WHOSE RIGHT IS INTERFERED
Journalist
RIGHTS GUARANTEED UNDER THE RIGHT OF FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION
Right to Impart Information and Ideas
TYPE OF INTERFERENCE
Judicial Interference
Criminal Courts
Decision of acquittal
THE LEGAL GROUNDS FOR INTERFERENCE
Turkish Penal Code
Art. 299

Journalist Burak Şahin was put on trial at the İstanbul 16th Criminal Court of First Instance on charge of “insulting the President of the Republic” over a comic published on the Diken news website.

Şahin was acquitted at the hearing on February 3, 2021 (February 3).