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Kamil Tekin Sürek, a columnist for Evrensel Daily – the trial for “insulting the Turkish President”
RELATED PERSON OR INSTITUTION
Kamil Tekin Sürek
CITY
İstanbul
YEAR OF INTERFERENCE
2018
LAST UPDATED
26/06/2019
TYPE OF STATEMENT
Political
MEDIUM
Print Media
Newspaper
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
Decision of acquittal
THE LEGAL GROUNDS FOR INTERFERENCE
Turkish Penal Code
Art. 299

Bakirkoy 2nd Criminal Court of First Instance began to judge Evrensel newspaper columnist Kamil Tekin Sürek on the charge of “insulting the Turkish President” over his article entitled “Fascist Dictatorship” which criticizes against the government.

On December 2018, Sürek was acquitted.