MEDIA MONITORING DATABASE
Abbas Yalçın – trial over retraction
RELATED PERSON OR INSTITUTION
Abbas Yalçın
CITY
İstanbul
LAST UPDATED
13/05/2019
TYPE OF STATEMENT
Political
MEDIUM
Print Media
Newspaper
THE TITLE OF WHOSE RIGHT IS INTERFERED
Editor / Editor-In-Chief
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
Press Law
Art. 18

Abbas Yalçın, an executive for Cumhuriyet newspaper was acquitted of the charge regarding the retraction for a news article entitled “İBB’den adrese teslim milyarlar” in March 2018.