MEDIA MONITORING DATABASE
Fırat Can Arslan – trial for “marking a counterterrorism official as a target”
RELATED PERSON OR INSTITUTION
Fırat Can Arslan
CITY
Konya
YEAR OF INTERFERENCE
2022
LAST UPDATED
05/10/2023
TYPE OF STATEMENT
Political
MEDIUM
Internet
News Agency
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. 6/1

Konya Public Prosecutor Şahsuvar prepared an indictment about Yıldız Fırat Can Arslan and Dilan Babat. The prosecutor charged the journalists with marking counterterrorism officials as targets according to article 6/1 of the Turkish Criminal Code (February 22).

Konya 2nd Heavy Penal Court accepted the indictment, prepared a preliminary proceedings report, and scheduled a hearing for May 25, 2023 (March 2).

The court ruled that there was no case of “exposing and targeting public officials” and acquitted Babat and Arslan (October 5).