MEDIA MONITORING DATABASE
Zeynep Kuray – detention for “propagandizing for a terrorist organization”
RELATED PERSON OR INSTITUTION
Zeynep Kuray
CITY
İstanbul
YEAR OF INTERFERENCE
2017
LAST UPDATED
21/11/2019
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
Public Prosecution Offices
Taking into custody
THE LEGAL GROUNDS FOR INTERFERENCE
Anti-Terror Law
Art. 7/2

BirGün daily newspaper reporter Zeynep Kuray was detained in a house raid by Anti-Terror teams at 10 p.m. on October 25, 2017 and was taken to İstanbul Security Directorate. She was released after she gave her testimony to a İstanbul prosecutor.

Kuray was charged with “propagandizing for a terror organization” due to her Facebook posts.