MEDIA MONITORING DATABASE
Furkan Gökşen – trial for “breaching confidentiality”
RELATED PERSON OR INSTITUTION
Furkan Gökşen
CITY
Gaziantep
YEAR OF INTERFERENCE
2017
LAST UPDATED
08/05/2019
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
Criminal Courts
Arrest warrant/Decision for the continuation of arrest
THE LEGAL GROUNDS FOR INTERFERENCE
Turkish Penal Code
Art. 285

Gaziantep-based journalist Murat Güreş and Furkan Gökşen were arrested on the charge of “breaching the confidentiality of an investigation” on the grounds of reporting about the contents of the statement of a “FETO” suspect entrepreneur gave to a prosecutor. They were released on August 15, 2017, after their lawyer’s objection to the Penal Judgeship of Peace.