MEDIA MONITORING DATABASE
Detention of Nurcan Kaya, writer for Artı Gerçek news website
RELATED PERSON OR INSTITUTION
Nurcan Kaya
CITY
İstanbul
YEAR OF INTERFERENCE
2019
LAST UPDATED
27/10/2019
TYPE OF STATEMENT
Political
MEDIUM
Internet
Social Media Account
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 Peace Judgeships
Other
THE LEGAL GROUNDS FOR INTERFERENCE
Turkish Penal Code
Art. 216/1

Nurcan Kaya, a writer for Artı Gerçek news portal, for whom an arrest warrant has been issued due to her social media posts, was detained at Istanbul Airport on the morning of October 27 with the decision of the 1st Criminal Court of Peace on the grounds of “Provoking the Public to Hatred, Hostility or Degrading”. Kaya was released after giving her deposition on the same day (27 October).