MEDIA MONITORING DATABASE
Turgut Usul – trial for “membership of FETÖ”
RELATED PERSON OR INSTITUTION
Turgut Usul
CITY
Ankara
YEAR OF INTERFERENCE
2018
LAST UPDATED
24/11/2019
TYPE OF STATEMENT
Political
MEDIUM
Television
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
Arrest warrant/Decision for the continuation of arrest
THE LEGAL GROUNDS FOR INTERFERENCE
Turkish Penal Code
Art. 314/2

Turgut Usul, a former reporter for the Turkish state broadcaster TRT, who had already been dismissed from his profession through an emergency decree (KHK) was arrested on charges of “membership in a terrorist organization (FETÖ),” in February 2018.