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Lawsuit for damages by TÜGVA against Mehmet Kızmaz
RELATED PERSON OR INSTITUTION
Mehmet Kızmaz
CITY
İstanbul
YEAR OF INTERFERENCE
2022
LAST UPDATED
01/10/2021
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
Third-Party Interference
Filing a Compensation Lawsuit
THE LEGAL GROUNDS FOR INTERFERENCE
Turkish Civil Code
Art. 25

Due to the news report “Ensar, TÜRGEV and TÜGVA [are] like parallel terrorist organizations” published on Cumhuriyet newspaper on October 23, 2021, Mehmet Kızmaz and Cumhuriyet newspaper faced a lawsuit for damages filed by TÜGVA Foundation. During the trial, Kızmaz’s lawyer Damla Çaltepe requested that the case be dismissed while TÜGVA’s lawyer requested that the case be accepted. Accepting the case, the court ruled that Kızmaz and Cumhuriyet newspaper should be sentenced to pay 15 thousand TRY in damages (October 19).