MEDIA MONITORING DATABASE
Detention of İhsan Yaşar
RELATED PERSON OR INSTITUTION
İhsan Yaşar
CITY
İstanbul
YEAR OF INTERFERENCE
2018
LAST UPDATED
25/04/2019
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
Taking into custody
THE LEGAL GROUNDS FOR INTERFERENCE
Anti-Terror Law
Art. 7/2

On 28 March 2018, 21 people including İhsan Yaşar, the grant holder of Özgürlükçü Demokrasi newspaper and Kasım Zengin, owner of Gün Printing House, were detained on the allegations of “membership in a terrorist organisation” and “propagandasing for a terrorist organisation”. Among those detained, there were 19 employees for the printing house. It was defended that, in the news, they have point Turkey’s presence in Afrin as ” occupier” and they have used phrases such as “the Republic of Turkey which massacred civilians in Afrin”, in line with the purpose and ideology of the terrorist organization