MEDIA MONITORING DATABASE
Bekir Şahin – trial for “obtaining and publishing personal data illegally”
RELATED PERSON OR INSTITUTION
Bekir Şahin
CITY
Gaziantep
YEAR OF INTERFERENCE
2021
LAST UPDATED
14/12/2021
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
Decision of acquittal
THE LEGAL GROUNDS FOR INTERFERENCE
Turkish Penal Code
Art. 136

Gaziantep Yeni Çizgi newspaper executive Bekir Şahin was on trial on charge of “obtaining and publishing personal data illegally” on the grounds that he publicly posted a picture on social media in announcing that a retired soldier killed his spouse and committed suicide.

Standing trial at the Burdur 4th Criminal Court of First Instance, Şahin was acquitted at his hearing on December 14, 2021 (December 14).