MEDIA MONITORING DATABASE
Criminal complaint against Ayşenur Arslan
RELATED PERSON OR INSTITUTION
Ayşenur Arslan
CITY
Ankara
YEAR OF INTERFERENCE
2022
LAST UPDATED
11/02/2022
TYPE OF STATEMENT
Political
MEDIUM
Television
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
Third-Party Interference
Other
THE LEGAL GROUNDS FOR INTERFERENCE
Turkish Penal Code
Art. 301

Applying to the Ankara Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office on February 11, 2022, the lawyers of the AKP, MHP and BBP filed separate criminal complaints against journalist Ayşenur Arslan over the remarks she uttered about the Turkish Resistance Organization (TMT) during her program “Medya Mahallesi” (Media Neighborhood) on Halk TV, demanding her penalization for “degrading the Turkish nation, the State of the Republic of Turkey, the institutions and bodies of the state” (February 11).