MEDIA MONITORING DATABASE
Former Taraf reporter Hüseyin Özkaya stands trial – “being a member of a terrorist organization”
RELATED PERSON OR INSTITUTION
Hüseyin Özkaya
CITY
Ankara
LAST UPDATED
13/11/2019
MEDIUM
Print Media
Newspaper
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
Sentence to imprisonment
THE LEGAL GROUNDS FOR INTERFERENCE
Turkish Penal Code
Art. 314/2

Former Ankara reporter of Taraf Newspaper Hüseyin Özkaya is standing trial with the allegation of being a member of FETÖ. The charges against him bases upon his job at Taraf Newspaper alongside his usage of ByLock app and that he increased his savings at Bank Asya following the FETO announcement to do so.

Ankara 16 Heavy Criminal Court found him guilty on the charge of being a member of a terrorist organization and sentenced him to 7 years 6 months imprisonment. (17 September)