MEDIA MONITORING DATABASE
Investigation against Barış Pehlivan
RELATED PERSON OR INSTITUTION
Barış Pehlivan
CITY
İstanbul
YEAR OF INTERFERENCE
2022
LAST UPDATED
25/05/2022
TYPE OF STATEMENT
Political
MEDIUM
Other
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
Third-Party Interference
Filing a Compensation Lawsuit
THE LEGAL GROUNDS FOR INTERFERENCE
Turkish Civil Code
Art. 25

An investigation was launched against journalists Barış Pehlivan and Barış Terkoğlu, for pointing out allegations of “corruption in the judiciary” in their book Cendere. A total of 34 criminal and compensation case files were opened against the journalists as a result of the initiative by President Erdoğan’s former lawyer, Mustafa Doğan İnal (May 25).