MEDIA MONITORING DATABASE
Furkan Karabay – trial for “insulting a public official”
RELATED PERSON OR INSTITUTION
Furkan Karabay
CITY
İstanbul
YEAR OF INTERFERENCE
2022
LAST UPDATED
13/10/2022
TYPE OF STATEMENT
Political
MEDIUM
Internet
Internet News Portal
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. 125/1

Faruk Eren, the Managing Editor of Gerçek Gündem, and Furkan Karabay, the editor of Gerçek Gündem, faced a lawsuit for “insulting a public official” (as per the Article 125 of the Turkish Penal Code / TCK). Karabay had reported on the appointments at the Antalya Courthouse, including İstanbul Deputy Public Prosecutors Zafer Koç and Yakup Ali Kahveci, in the news report titled “‘İstanbul’ detail in the ‘Antalya’ operation in the judiciary: What do the appointed prosecutors show?” (October 4).

At the hearing at the İstanbul 30th Criminal Court of First Instance, Eren and Karabay were sentenced to 2 years, 3 months in prison. The judge did not execute the provisions as to the suspension of the announcement of the verdict (October 13).