MEDIA MONITORING DATABASE
Investigations into “dissemination of misleading information” – İsmail Arı
RELATED PERSON OR INSTITUTION
İsmail Arı
CITY
Ankara
YEAR OF INTERFERENCE
2023
LAST UPDATED
01/11/2023
TYPE OF STATEMENT
Political
MEDIUM
Internet
Internet News Portal
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. 217/A

Fatih Erdoğan, husband of AKP MP Asuman Erdoğan, filed a criminal complaint against journalists for the news articles published on December 28, 2022 by Birgün reporter İsmail Arı with the headline “Billions of profiteering from AKP member’s wife!” and on January 6, 2023 by Birgün News Director Uğur Şahin with the headline “Decision to upset the Erdoğans: A brake on looting” on January 6, 2023.

Ankara Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office launched an investigation against birgun.net Editorial Coordinator Uğur Koç, News Director Uğur Şahin and Birgün reporter İsmail Arı upon Erdoğan’s complaint. Newspaper employees were summoned to testify on charges of “disseminating misleading information” (TCK 217/A), “insult” (TCK 125) and “slander” (TCK 267) (November 1)