MEDIA MONITORING DATABASE
Osman Akın – investigation for “propaganda”
RELATED PERSON OR INSTITUTION
Osman Akın
CITY
İstanbul
YEAR OF INTERFERENCE
2023
LAST UPDATED
25/01/2023
TYPE OF STATEMENT
Political
MEDIUM
Print Media
Newspaper
THE TITLE OF WHOSE RIGHT IS INTERFERED
Chief Editor
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
Anti-Terror Law
Art. 7/2

An investigation was launched against Yeni Yaşam newspaper’s managing editor Osman Akın months after the İstanbul 9th Criminal Judgeship of Peace, as per its decision dated June 8, 2022, gave a confiscation order for the printed newspaper’s June 7, 2022 issue on the grounds of the news and articles. 

Giving his statement as part of the investigation launched by the İstanbul Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office on charge of “propagandizing for a terrorist organization”, Akın said that the news did not constitute a crime and dismissed the charges (January 25).