MEDIA MONITORING DATABASE
Atakan Sönmez – trial for “propagandizing for a terrorist organization”
RELATED PERSON OR INSTITUTION
Atakan Sönmez
YEAR OF INTERFERENCE
2019
LAST UPDATED
07/11/2019
TYPE OF STATEMENT
Political
MEDIUM
Internet
Internet News Portal
THE TITLE OF WHOSE RIGHT IS INTERFERED
Editor / Editor-In-Chief
RIGHTS GUARANTEED UNDER THE RIGHT OF FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION
Right to Impart Information and Ideas
TYPE OF INTERFERENCE
Judicial Interference
Criminal Courts
Sentence to imprisonment
THE LEGAL GROUNDS FOR INTERFERENCE
Anti-Terror Law
Art. 7/2

The 13th High Criminal Court of İstanbul sentenced the former news editor for online edition of Cumhuriyet Newspaper, Atakan Sönmez to 10 months of imprisonment for “propagandising for a terrorist organisation” on the grounds of news articles on Afrin Operation published in the online edition of Cumhuriyet newspaper. The prison sentence was deferred (7 November).