MEDIA MONITORING DATABASE
Sentence at the lowest limit for the attack on Ahmet Takan
RELATED PERSON OR INSTITUTION
Ahmet Takan
CITY
Ankara
YEAR OF INTERFERENCE
2021
LAST UPDATED
04/02/2021
IMPUNITY CATEGORY
Impunity for Violence
MEDIA
National Media

In the trial over the attack on Korkusuz columnist Ahmet Takan in front of his house in Ankara in November 2019, defendant Emre Aydemir, who battered the journalist with a baseball bat, shouting the slogan, “The leader of the movement [Nationalist Movement Party – MHP Chair] Devlet Bahçeli”, was fined 2 thousand TRY at the lowest limit on the grounds of “good conduct”; his judicial fine was splitted into instalments (February 4).