MEDIA MONITORING DATABASE
Ahmet Kanbal – investigation for “marking a counterterrorism official as a target”
RELATED PERSON OR INSTITUTION
Ahmet Kanbal
CITY
Mardin
YEAR OF INTERFERENCE
2021
LAST UPDATED
25/08/2021
TYPE OF STATEMENT
Political
MEDIUM
Internet
News Agency
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
Opening a criminal investigation
THE LEGAL GROUNDS FOR INTERFERENCE
Anti-Terror Law
Art. 6/1

The Nusaybin Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office has launched an investigation against Mezopotamya Agency (MA) reporter Ahmet Kanbal on the grounds that he wrote the names of the police officers in the news report “16-year-old child taken into custody for 30 times in 3 years: Mother battered” published on November 19, 2020. The journalist is charged with “marking a counterterrorism official as a target” (August 25).