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Criminal complaint by Diyarbakır Bar Association against journalist Emin Çölaşan
RELATED PERSON OR INSTITUTION
Emin Çölaşan
CITY
Diyarbakır
YEAR OF INTERFERENCE
2017
LAST UPDATED
06/12/2019
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
Public Prosecution Offices
Opening a criminal investigation
THE LEGAL GROUNDS FOR INTERFERENCE
Turkish Penal Code
Art. 216/1

The Diyarbakır Bar Association has filed a criminal complaint against Emin Çölaşan on March 1, 2017 on the grounds that an article about the flag of the Kurdish Regional Government and the leader Mesut Barzani, published on February 28, 2017 in daily Sözcü is “inciting the public to hatred and enmity”.