MEDIA MONITORING DATABASE
Hamza Aktan – trial for “propagandizing for a terrorist organization”
RELATED PERSON OR INSTITUTION
Hamza Aktan
CITY
İstanbul
YEAR OF INTERFERENCE
2017
LAST UPDATED
06/05/2019
TYPE OF STATEMENT
Political
MEDIUM
Print Media
Newspaper
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
Approval of the indictment and initiating the prosecution
THE LEGAL GROUNDS FOR INTERFERENCE
Anti-Terror Law
Art. 7/2

The prosecutor at the Bakırköy 2nd High Criminal Court reiterated that he requested 7.5 years imprisonment for IMC TV news director Hamza Aktan, for the charges of “propagandising for a terrorist organisation” due to the 16 tweets, nine of whih were not sent by him.

The court decided to scrutinize his tweets for which the Police department decided not to prosecute. Next hearing will be held on April 4, 2017.