MEDIA MONITORING DATABASE
Investigation against Murat Ağırel for “insult”
RELATED PERSON OR INSTITUTION
Murat Ağırel
CITY
İstanbul
YEAR OF INTERFERENCE
2020
LAST UPDATED
18/11/2020
TYPE OF STATEMENT
Political
MEDIUM
Print Media
Newspaper
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. 125/1

Even though Murat Ağırel, a columnist for Yeniçağ newspaper, was acquitted of “insult” in the trial that began upon the criminal complaint of Yeni Şafak newspaper’s owner Nuri Albayrak, a new investigation has been launched against Ağırel over the same article entitled “İstanbul Baron” (İstanbul Baronu) (November 19).