MEDIA MONITORING DATABASE
Namık Koçak – trial for “propagandizing for a terrorist organization”
RELATED PERSON OR INSTITUTION
Namık Koçak
CITY
İstanbul
YEAR OF INTERFERENCE
2021
LAST UPDATED
03/03/2022
TYPE OF STATEMENT
Political
MEDIUM
Internet
Social Media Account
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
Anti-Terror Law
Art. 7/2

A lawsuit was filed against Namık Koçak over his social media messages from the years 2015-2020; Koçak was charged with “propagandizing for a terrorist organization”. 

At the second hearing of the trial held on March 3, 2022, the İstanbul 22nd High Criminal Court concluded that the elements of the offense charged did not arise and ruled that Namık Koçak should be acquitted (March 3).