MEDIA MONITORING DATABASE
Fatih Portakal – investigation for “insulting the President of the Republic”
RELATED PERSON OR INSTITUTION
Fatih Portakal
CITY
İstanbul
YEAR OF INTERFERENCE
2018
LAST UPDATED
13/05/2019
TYPE OF STATEMENT
Political
MEDIUM
Internet
Social Media Account
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. 299

İstanbul Anatolian Chief Prosecutor’s Office has launched an investigation against FOX TV Anchorperson Fatih Portakal for “insulting the President of the Republic” over his tweet about the ban of the theatre play entitled “Sadece Diktatör [only Dictator] by Barış Atay (14 September 2018)