Journalist Barış Terkoğlu is on trial together with IYI Party Deputy Chairman Ahmet Zeki Üçok on charges of “insulting a public official due to the performance of his public duty;” (TCK 125/3-a) for his articles titled “How well-connected FETÖ members are saved” and “Mr. Prosecutor, I’m coming, add this article, too” published in Cumhuriyet newspaper in April 2023.
At the first hearing held on November 9 at Istanbul 2nd Criminal Court of First Instance, Terkoğlu requested time from the court to prepare his defense. The court accepted the time request. The next hearing is scheduled for February 22 (9 November).