MEDIA MONITORING DATABASE
Only a deferred fine for threat against Emrullah Özbey
RELATED PERSON OR INSTITUTION
Emrullah Özbey
CITY
Muş
YEAR OF INTERFERENCE
2021
LAST UPDATED
16/04/2021
IMPUNITY CATEGORY
Impunity for Violence
MEDIA
National Media

On the grounds that he threatened and insulted Haber 49 newspaper’s owner Emrullah Özbey over his article titled “Not Favoritism, But Muş Should Win” (Adamcılık Değil, Muş Kazanmalı), the Muş 3rd Criminal Court of First Instance has convicted the Mayor’s relative Erkan Asya solely on charge of “insult.” While the prosecutor’s office also demanded penalization for “threat” over the defendant’s remarks “No one will be responsible for what will happen from now on”, the court took only the swear words into consideration. Including all sentence reductions, the defendant has been sentenced to pay a fine as per the Article 125 of the Turkish Penal Code (TCK); the fine has been deferred after being divided into instalments (April 16).