MEDIA MONITORING DATABASE
Ahmet Hakan – trial for “insult”
RELATED PERSON OR INSTITUTION
Ahmet Hakan
YEAR OF INTERFERENCE
2018
LAST UPDATED
08/12/2019
TYPE OF STATEMENT
Political
MEDIUM
Print Media
Newspaper
THE TITLE OF WHOSE RIGHT IS INTERFERED
Journalist
TYPE OF INTERFERENCE
Judicial Interference
Criminal Courts
Imposing the fines
THE LEGAL GROUNDS FOR INTERFERENCE
Turkish Penal Code
Art. 125/1

The columnist for daily Hürriyet, Ahmet Hakan was imposed judicial fines due to “insult” for his articles written in 2015 about Reza Zarrab who was arrested in the U.S.