MEDIA MONITORING DATABASE
Mehmet Güleş – Investigation for “publicly spreading misleading information”
RELATED PERSON OR INSTITUTION
Mehmet Güleş
CITY
Diyarbakır
YEAR OF INTERFERENCE
2023
LAST UPDATED
17/11/2023
TYPE OF STATEMENT
Political
MEDIUM
Internet
Internet News Portal
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
Public Prosecution Offices
Opening a criminal investigation
THE LEGAL GROUNDS FOR INTERFERENCE
Turkish Penal Code
Art. 217/A

Diyarbakır Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office ruled “no prosecution” in the investigation against Mezopotamya Agency (MA) reporter Mehmet Güleş, who was detained along with his news source on charges of “publicly spreading misleading information”(TCK 217/A) while following search and rescue operations in collapsed buildings in Diyarbakır on February 8 and interviewing a volunteer search and rescue worker (November 17)