MEDIA MONITORING DATABASE
DİHA Reporter Hacı Yusuf Topaloğlu – “membership in a terrorist organisation”
RELATED PERSON OR INSTITUTION
Hacı Yusuf Topaloğlu
CITY
Adıyaman
YEAR OF INTERFERENCE
2019
LAST UPDATED
22/01/2020
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
Criminal Courts
Approval of the indictment and initiating the prosecution
THE LEGAL GROUNDS FOR INTERFERENCE
Turkish Penal Code
Art. 314/2

Yusuf Topaloğlu, a reporter for the Dicle News Agency (DİHA), which was closed by a Statutory Decree, was taken into custody as part of an investigation against him on November 27, 2019. The prosecutor’s office referred him to the Penal Judgeship of Peace and requested his arrest.

The judgeship has ruled that journalist Hacı Yusuf Topaloğlu shall be arrested on the charge of “membership in a terrorist organization” based on the statements of an anonymous witness on December 5.

Hacı Yusuf Topaloğlu was released in his first hearing at the 2nd High Criminal Court of Adıyaman on January 21, 2020.