MEDIA MONITORING DATABASE
Hülya Karakaya – trial for “membership of a terrorist organization”
RELATED PERSON OR INSTITUTION
Hülya Karakaya
CITY
İstanbul
YEAR OF INTERFERENCE
2017
LAST UPDATED
08/05/2019
TYPE OF STATEMENT
Political
MEDIUM
Print Media
Periodicals
THE TITLE OF WHOSE RIGHT IS INTERFERED
Chief Editor
RIGHTS GUARANTEED UNDER THE RIGHT OF FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION
Right to Impart Information and Ideas
TYPE OF INTERFERENCE
Judicial Interference
Criminal Courts
Approval of the indictment and initiating the prosecution
THE LEGAL GROUNDS FOR INTERFERENCE
Turkish Penal Code
Art. 314/2

Managing editor of Özgür Halk Magazine, inmate journalist Hülya Karakaya, has been standing trial for “membership in a terrorist organisation” at the 13th High Criminal Court in Istanbul. At the fifth hearing, Karakaya was released on bail (18 July 2017)