MEDIA MONITORING DATABASE
Ozan Kaplanoğlu – trial for “propagandizing for a terrorist organization”
RELATED PERSON OR INSTITUTION
Ozan Kaplanoğlu
CITY
Bursa
YEAR OF INTERFERENCE
2018
LAST UPDATED
10/06/2021
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
Criminal Courts
Sentence to imprisonment
THE LEGAL GROUNDS FOR INTERFERENCE
Anti-Terror Law
Art. 7/2

The Bursa 10th High Criminal Court ruled that Ozan Kaplanoğlu, the Managing Chief Editor of BursaMuhalif.com local news website, which had reported on the press statement about the Afrin operation in 2018, saying, “We side with peace, not war”, should be sentenced to 1 year, 10 months, 15 days in prison for “propagandizing for a terrorist organization” (June 10).