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Cartoonist Nuri Kurtçebe is on trial for the charges of “insulting the President of the Republic” – 1
RELATED PERSON OR INSTITUTION
Nuri Kurtcebe
CITY
Muğla
YEAR OF INTERFERENCE
2017
LAST UPDATED
26/04/2019
TYPE OF STATEMENT
Political
MEDIUM
Print Media
Newspaper
THE TITLE OF WHOSE RIGHT IS INTERFERED
Other
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
Turkish Penal Code
Art. 299

Cartoonist Nuri Kurtcebe was detained and arrested in Yalova on June 5, 2018, on the grounds that he was convicted for the charges of  “insulting the President of the Republic”. He has been sentenced to 1 year 2 months 15 days imprisonment for this charge given by the 2nd Criminal Court of First Instance of Fethiye in 2017. He has been released on probation on the following day.