MEDIA MONITORING DATABASE
Detention of Semra Turan
RELATED PERSON OR INSTITUTION
Semra Turan
CITY
Bingöl
YEAR OF INTERFERENCE
2017
LAST UPDATED
07/05/2019
TYPE OF STATEMENT
Political
MEDIUM
Internet
News Agency
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

Semra Turan, a reporter of the shuttered DİHA Agency by decree law, which was closed down with the Decree-Law, was released on 16 January 2017 on condition of judicial control after being held at the Bingöl Security Court on suspicion of “propagandising for a terrorist organisation” She was allegedly interrogated over her news covering in Diyarbakir, Dersim, Bingol and her social media posts.