MEDIA MONITORING DATABASE
Fatih Polat – trial for “disclosing identity in periodicals”
RELATED PERSON OR INSTITUTION
Fatih Polat
CITY
İstanbul
YEAR OF INTERFERENCE
2018
LAST UPDATED
13/05/2019
TYPE OF STATEMENT
Political
MEDIUM
Print Media
Newspaper
THE TITLE OF WHOSE RIGHT IS INTERFERED
Editor / Editor-In-Chief
RIGHTS GUARANTEED UNDER THE RIGHT OF FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION
Right to Impart Information and Ideas
TYPE OF INTERFERENCE
Judicial Interference
Criminal Courts
Imposing the fines
THE LEGAL GROUNDS FOR INTERFERENCE
Press Law

In 2013, the Istanbul 2nd Criminal Court of First Instance had found Evrensel daily’s editor-in-chief Fatih Polat guilty of “disclosing the identity of a minor” and sentenced him to a fine of TL 10,000 for the news story, published in May 2012. The court had suspended the judgment. After Polat was convicted in another media trial, the Istanbul 2nd Criminal Court of First Instance decided to review that decision and reassess the specifics of the case in a retrial.

On September 6, 2018, Polat was given a 10 thousand Turkish Liras fine in the retrial of a previous case, where the charges stemmed from a news story published in the newspaper in 2012, when Polat was the newspaper’s responsible managing editor.