MEDIA MONITORING DATABASE
Özgür Boğatekin summoned to give his statement
RELATED PERSON OR INSTITUTION
Özgür Boğatekin
CITY
Adıyaman
YEAR OF INTERFERENCE
2022
LAST UPDATED
01/02/2022
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
Third-Party Interference
Other
THE LEGAL GROUNDS FOR INTERFERENCE
Anti-Terror Law
Art. 7/2

Özgür Boğatekin, the News Director of local Gerger Newspaper based in Adıyaman’s Gerger district, was summoned to give his statement on charge of “propagandizing for a terrorist organization” upon a tip-off by an anonynous person over his picture on his social media account where he was giving the victory sign, his social media post about Taybet İnan, whose deceased body had been left on the street for 7 days during the curfew in Silopi, and his social media post about a child being attacked by wild animals in a village covered in snow (February 1).