MEDIA MONITORING DATABASE
Criminal complaint about Çağdaş Kaplan by Fatih Polat
RELATED PERSON OR INSTITUTION
Fatih Polat
CITY
İstanbul
YEAR OF INTERFERENCE
2019
LAST UPDATED
13/01/2019
LEGAL REMEDIES CATEGORIES
Struggle Against Administrative Restrictions
MEDIA
National Media

Criminal complaint about “calumny against Evrensel”: Evrensel Newspaper editor-in-chief Fatih Polat referred to the indictment against journalist Çağdaş Kaplan, who was charged with “propagandizing for a terrorist organization” due to his social media posts, and said that the indictment against the journalist portrayed evrensel.net as a media outlet “publishing news with the guidance of the terrorist organization.” Polat announced that they would file a criminal complaint (February 13).