MEDIA MONITORING DATABASE
Fatih Portakal – investigation for “membership of FETÖ”
RELATED PERSON OR INSTITUTION
Fatih Portakal
CITY
İstanbul
YEAR OF INTERFERENCE
2019
LAST UPDATED
01/12/2019
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 Bakırköy Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office has launched an investigation against Fox TV anchor Fatih Portakal for being allegedly a member to a terrorist organization due to texting with Ekrem Dumanlı.  The prosecution office decided on non-prosecution since the texting was regarding the death of Portakal’s father. (14 March)