MEDIA MONITORING DATABASE
Investigation against Yıldız Tar – “marking a counterterrorism official as a target”
RELATED PERSON OR INSTITUTION
Yıldız Tar
CITY
Ankara
YEAR OF INTERFERENCE
2023
LAST UPDATED
22/11/2023
TYPE OF STATEMENT
Political
MEDIUM
Internet
Internet News Portal
THE TITLE OF WHOSE RIGHT IS INTERFERED
Editor / Editor-In-Chief
RIGHTS GUARANTEED UNDER THE RIGHT OF FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION
Right to Impart Information and Ideas
TYPE OF INTERFERENCE
Judicial Interference
Public Prosecution Offices
Opening a criminal investigation
THE LEGAL GROUNDS FOR INTERFERENCE
Anti-Terror Law
Art. 6/1

An investigation was launched against KAOS GL news website editor Yıldız Tar due to “marking a counterterrorism official as a target” (TMK 6/1) for her article titled “The hometown of judges and prosecutors who want to become famous” published on Artı Gerçek news website on July 28, 2023. As part of the investigation launched by the Diyarbakır Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office under Article 6 of the Anti-Terror Law, Tar went to the Ankara Security Directorate Anti-Terror Branch Directorate on November 22 with his lawyer Fatih Aydın from the MLSA Legal Unit and gave a statement (November 22).