MEDIA MONITORING DATABASE
Investigation against FOX TV anchorperson Fatih Portakal
RELATED PERSON OR INSTITUTION
Fatih Portakal
CITY
İstanbul
YEAR OF INTERFERENCE
2018
LAST UPDATED
13/05/2019
TYPE OF STATEMENT
Political
MEDIUM
Television
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
Public Prosecution Offices
Opening a criminal investigation
THE LEGAL GROUNDS FOR INTERFERENCE
Turkish Penal Code
Art. 301

After the Ministry of Health filed a criminal complaint about a news report broadcast on Fox TV about Mersin City Hospital, Bakırköy Public Prosecutor’s Office has launched an investigation against the anchorperson of Fox TV Fatih Portakal and its Managing Director Onur Kumbaracıbaşı for “degrading the state organs”, “insult” and “libel”.