MEDIA MONITORING DATABASE
A lawsuit against Barış Pehlivan for “writing about a person’s association membership and past criminal record”
RELATED PERSON OR INSTITUTION
Barış Pehlivan
CITY
İstanbul
YEAR OF INTERFERENCE
2024
LAST UPDATED
08/08/2024
TYPE OF STATEMENT
Political
MEDIUM
Print Media
Newspaper
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

A lawsuit was filed against Cumhuriyet newspaper writer Barış Pehlivan, requesting 9 years in prison, on the grounds of his article about an association that was determined to have been founded by FETO and closed down by a Statutory Decree (August 8th).