MEDIA MONITORING DATABASE
Release of Hakan Gülseven
RELATED PERSON OR INSTITUTION
Hakan Gülseven
CITY
Balıkesir
YEAR OF INTERFERENCE
2018
LAST UPDATED
08/05/2019
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
Imposing the fines
THE LEGAL GROUNDS FOR INTERFERENCE
Turkish Penal Code
Art. 125/3

Journalist Hakan Gülseven has written a column about the former Sakarya Governor Hüseyin Avni Coş in Yurt newspaper and was tried and sentenced 11 months, 20 days of imprisonment, which the court later commuted to a TL 10,000 fine for “insult”. He was released the next day after his fine paid by his friends (19 June 2018)