MEDIA MONITORING DATABASE
Erkan Çapraz – Investigation for “knowingly and willingly aiding a terrorist organization”
RELATED PERSON OR INSTITUTION
Erkan Çapraz
CITY
Hakkari
YEAR OF INTERFERENCE
2017
LAST UPDATED
21/11/2019
TYPE OF STATEMENT
Political
MEDIUM
Internet
Internet News Portal
THE TITLE OF WHOSE RIGHT IS INTERFERED
Chief Editor
RIGHTS GUARANTEED UNDER THE RIGHT OF FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION
Right to Impart Information and Ideas
TYPE OF INTERFERENCE
Judicial Interference
Public Prosecution Offices
File a criminal case
THE LEGAL GROUNDS FOR INTERFERENCE
Turkish Penal Code
Art. 220/7

In September 2017, Hakkari Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office upheld the dismissal of charges of “knowingly and willingly aiding an armed terrorist organization” in the investigation launched against Yüksekovahaber correspondent Erkan Çapraz regarding the video entitled “Yüksekova raised Police in the schools” (Yüksekova okullarda polis yetiştiriyor).