MEDIA MONITORING DATABASE
Meryem Yıldırım – trial for “propagandizing for a terrorist organization”
RELATED PERSON OR INSTITUTION
Meryem Yıldırım
CITY
İstanbul
YEAR OF INTERFERENCE
2019
LAST UPDATED
14/11/2019
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
Criminal Courts
Sentence to imprisonment
THE LEGAL GROUNDS FOR INTERFERENCE
Anti-Terror Law
Art. 7/2

Artı Gerçek news portal reporter Meryem Yıldırım has been sentenced to 2 years 4 months and 3 days of imprisonment after being found guilty of propagandizing for a terrorist organization due to two tweets she posted via her Twitter account. The court “found no reason” to reduce the punishment. The verdict was given on 19 June.