MEDIA MONITORING DATABASE
Naim Yalçınel – trial for “membership of FETÖ”
RELATED PERSON OR INSTITUTION
Mustafa Naim Yalçınel
CITY
Adana
YEAR OF INTERFERENCE
2018
LAST UPDATED
23/11/2019
TYPE OF STATEMENT
Political
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
Sentence to imprisonment
THE LEGAL GROUNDS FOR INTERFERENCE
Turkish Penal Code
Art. 314/2

Mustafa Naim Yalçıner has been standing trial along with ten other journalist for “membership in a terrorist organisation [FETÖ]” at the 11th High Criminal Court of Adana. He was sentenced to 9 years of imprisonment in the last hearing held on February 16, 2018