MEDIA MONITORING DATABASE
Fuat Yaşar – lawsuit for “propagandizing for a terrorist organization”
RELATED PERSON OR INSTITUTION
Fuat Yaşar
CITY
Diyarbakır
YEAR OF INTERFERENCE
2018
LAST UPDATED
21/11/2019
TYPE OF STATEMENT
Political
MEDIUM
Internet
Social Media Account
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
Public Prosecution Offices
File a criminal case
THE LEGAL GROUNDS FOR INTERFERENCE
Anti-Terror Law
Art. 7/2

A lawsuit was filed against 1Habervar Correspondent Fuat Yaşar for “propagandising for a terrorist organisation” regarding his social media posts at 9th High Criminal Court of Diyarbakır in April 2018.  One of his posts that formed the grounds for the accusation featured a photograph showing the journalist posing in front of an armored water cannon truck.