MEDIA MONITORING DATABASE
Mehmet Dener – arrest for “membership of a terrorist organization”
RELATED PERSON OR INSTITUTION
Mehmet Dener
CITY
Şanlıurfa
YEAR OF INTERFERENCE
2017
LAST UPDATED
27/04/2019
TYPE OF STATEMENT
Political
MEDIUM
Internet
Internet News Portal
THE TITLE OF WHOSE RIGHT IS INTERFERED
Editor / Editor-In-Chief
RIGHTS GUARANTEED UNDER THE RIGHT OF FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION
Right to Impart Information and Ideas
TYPE OF INTERFERENCE
Judicial Interference
Criminal Courts
Approval of the indictment and initiating the prosecution
THE LEGAL GROUNDS FOR INTERFERENCE
Turkish Penal Code
Art. 314/2

The owner of the Şanlıurfa.com news website, Muhammed Taşçılar and the editor-in-chief Mehmet Dener, were released on 25 March 2017, nine months of imprisonment for “membership in a terrorist organisation (FETÖ)”.