MEDIA MONITORING DATABASE
Görkem Kınacı – trial for “provoking the public to hatred and hostility”
RELATED PERSON OR INSTITUTION
Görkem Kınacı
CITY
Sakarya
YEAR OF INTERFERENCE
2021
LAST UPDATED
10/02/2021
TYPE OF STATEMENT
Political
MEDIUM
Internet
Internet News Portal
THE TITLE OF WHOSE RIGHT IS INTERFERED
Chief Editor
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. 216/1

A lawsuit was filed against Görkem Kınacı, the Chief Editor of Evrensel newspaper, over the news report “Racist attack in Sakarya: Father loses his life, his son in treatment” published on evrensel.net in December 2018.

Charged with “publicly provoking hatred and hostility in public”, journalist Görkem Kınacı will give his statement at the Gaziosmanpaşa 10th Criminal Judgeship of First Instance on May 26, 2021 upon instruction as part of the lawsuit filed by the Sakarya 5th Criminal Judgeship of First Instance on the offense charged (February 10).