MEDIA MONITORING DATABASE
Nuri Kurtçebe – trial for “insulting the President of the Republic” – 2
RELATED PERSON OR INSTITUTION
Nuri Kurtcebe
CITY
İstanbul
YEAR OF INTERFERENCE
2018
LAST UPDATED
30/06/2019
TYPE OF STATEMENT
Political
MEDIUM
Other
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
Approval of the indictment and initiating the prosecution
THE LEGAL GROUNDS FOR INTERFERENCE
Turkish Penal Code
Art. 299

Kurtcebe, is on trial for the charges of “insulting the President of the Republic” due to  a cartoon of Erdoğan he drew in 2015.  As Nuri Kurtçebe and his lawyer did not attend the final hearing on 18 October 2018, the trial was postponed.

The proceedings continued on January 1, 2019.