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Allegation of “violating the confidentiality of the investigation” – Ahmet Kanbal
RELATED PERSON OR INSTITUTION
Ahmet Kanbal
CITY
Mardin
YEAR OF INTERFERENCE
2020
LAST UPDATED
10/01/2022
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
Other
THE LEGAL GROUNDS FOR INTERFERENCE
Turkish Penal Code
Art. 285

Having reported on the arrest of nine people, including soldiers, in Mardin’s Nusaybin on charge of “bribery and smuggling of migrants”, journalists Ahmet Kanbal, Merdan Yanardağ and Murat Taylan were given a decision of non-prosecution in the investigation launched by the Mardin Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office on charge of “violating the confidentiality of the investigation” (January 10).