MEDIA MONITORING DATABASE
Buse Söğütlü – charge of “insulting a public official”
RELATED PERSON OR INSTITUTION
Buse Söğütlü
CITY
İstanbul
YEAR OF INTERFERENCE
2022
LAST UPDATED
03/02/2022
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
Other
THE LEGAL GROUNDS FOR INTERFERENCE
Turkish Penal Code
Art. 125/1

In the trial where journalist Buse Söğütlü was acquitted of “marking a counterterrorism official as a target”, the court board ruled at the end of the hearing that a criminal complaint should be filed to the prosecutor’s office against Söğütlü on charge of “insulting a public official” (February 3).