MEDIA MONITORING DATABASE
Gülsüm Altan – trial for “propagandizing for a terrorist organization”
RELATED PERSON OR INSTITUTION
Gülsüm Altan
CITY
Van
YEAR OF INTERFERENCE
2017
LAST UPDATED
21/11/2019
TYPE OF STATEMENT
Political
MEDIUM
Television
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
Anti-Terror Law
Art. 7/2

The 2nd High Criminal Court of Van acquitted Gülsüm Altan and the reporter Serdar Altan at the first hearing of the case (October 2017), in which they were tried for “propagandising for a terrorist organisation”.