MEDIA MONITORING DATABASE
Fehim Taştekin’s book sales ban and confiscation decision
RELATED PERSON OR INSTITUTION
Murat Ağırel
CITY
İstanbul
YEAR OF INTERFERENCE
2024
LAST UPDATED
22/08/2024
TYPE OF STATEMENT
Political
MEDIUM
Print Media
Book
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
Search and seizure warrant

A criminal complaint was filed against journalist Murat Ağırel’s book “Havala”, which deals with drug trafficking and money laundering in Turkey, and the book was requested to be confiscated. Ağırel said that the person who filed the complaint about the book was Ahmed Ben Khadra, the brother of Alaa Ben Khadra, whose container contained 258 kilos of cocaine during an operation at the Port of Mersin in 2022, and that this person had previously been tried for meat smuggling and acquitted (August 22nd).