MEDIA MONITORING DATABASE
Journalists arrested in HDK investigation – Yıldız Tar
RELATED PERSON OR INSTITUTION
Yıldız Tar
CITY
İstanbul
YEAR OF INTERFERENCE
2025
LAST UPDATED
26/08/2025
TYPE OF STATEMENT
Political
MEDIUM
Other
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
Taking into custody
THE LEGAL GROUNDS FOR INTERFERENCE
Turkish Penal Code
Art. 314/2

18–22 February 2025

As part of an investigation into the Peoples’ Democratic Congress (HDK), journalist Yıldız Tar was taken into custody on the morning of 18 February along with around 280 other individuals. After four days in detention, he was brought before the İstanbul Criminal Judgeship of Peace, which ordered her arrest on charges of “membership in the PKK” (Turkish Penal Code, Article 314).