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İnan Ketenciler – trial for “insulting the President of the Republic”
RELATED PERSON OR INSTITUTION
İnan Ketenciler
CITY
İstanbul
LAST UPDATED
21/11/2019
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
Decision of acquittal
THE LEGAL GROUNDS FOR INTERFERENCE
Turkish Penal Code
Art. 299

A trial in which author and columnist Perihan Mağden and journalist İnan Ketenciler were accused of “insulting the President of the Republic” concluded on 21 March at the 2nd Criminal Court of First Instance of Istanbul.

The court found Mağden guilty of “insulting the president of the Republic” and sentenced her a judicial fine of TL 7,000. The court acquitted Ketenciler. Mağden was accused because of her remarks in an article in April 2016, in which she likened a contestant in the TV show “Survivor” to President Erdoğan. İnan Ketenciler was accused because the article was posted on the news website T24. (21 March)