MEDIA MONITORING DATABASE
Journalist Haydar Ergül is standing trial for allegedly being a member of a terrorist organization
RELATED PERSON OR INSTITUTION
Haydar Ergül
CITY
Diyarbakır
YEAR OF INTERFERENCE
2017
LAST UPDATED
26/12/2019
TYPE OF STATEMENT
Political
MEDIUM
Print Media
Periodicals
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
Criminal Courts
Approval of the indictment and initiating the prosecution
THE LEGAL GROUNDS FOR INTERFERENCE
Turkish Penal Code
Art. 314/2

Haydar Ergül was arrested by a police raid to his house on 28 July 2017 and is being tried for allegedly being a member of a terrorist organization. The prosecution is proceeding in front of İstanbul 22 Heavy Criminal Court.

At the ninth hearing of the case, the court decided to release five defendants and adjourned to December 26.

At the 10th hearing of the trial against 19 defendants on the charges of “PKK membership”, along with Haydar Ergül, the next trial will be held on May 14, 2020 for some defendants to make a statement regarding the report from the Forensic Medicine Institute (26 December).