MEDIA MONITORING DATABASE
Barış Pehlivan – trial for “insult”
RELATED PERSON OR INSTITUTION
Barış Pehlivan
CITY
Ankara
YEAR OF INTERFERENCE
2023
LAST UPDATED
30/11/2023
TYPE OF STATEMENT
Political
MEDIUM
Print Media
Newspaper
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
Approval of the indictment and initiating the prosecution
THE LEGAL GROUNDS FOR INTERFERENCE
Turkish Penal Code
Art. 125/3

Barış Pehlivan and Suat Toktaş are on trial for “insulting a public official” following a complaint filed by former HSK member Hamit Kocabey.

During the hearing of the case held at Ankara 39th Criminal Court of First Instance on November 30, the court separated Pehlivan’s file and merged it with the case pending at Ankara 19th Criminal Court of First Instance for the same reason. In his final opinion, the prosecutor demanded Toktaş’s acquittal on the grounds that “the legal elements of the imputed offense have not been established” and accepted the lawyers’ request for time for their statements on the merits. The next hearing is scheduled for December 21 (November 30).