Selçuk Bayraktar and his brother Haluk Bayraktar applied to the court on September 22 last year and demanded a total of 250 thousand liras in damages for the news titled “TÜBİTAK is working for the groom’s foundation” by İsmail Arı in BirGün.
The lawyers of the brothers said, “It is obvious that the defendants’ intention is not to report news or inform the public, but to attack the personal rights of my clients,” to the court board.
The İstanbul 23rd Criminal Court of First Instance ordered BirGün and reporter İsmail Arı to pay 200 thousand Turkish lira (~12,521 US dollars) in damages for the news about TÜBİTAK’s 7.6 million Turkish lira (~475,800 US dollars) spending on TEKNO FEST organized by Turkish Technology Team Foundation (T3) Foundation (May 18).
