MEDIA MONITORING DATABASE
Özgür Gündem Editor-in-Chief on Watch Yıldırım Türker – trial for “propagandizing for a terrorist organization”
RELATED PERSON OR INSTITUTION
Yıldırım Türker
CITY
İstanbul
YEAR OF INTERFERENCE
2017
LAST UPDATED
30/11/2019
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
Suspension of the execution of the sentences of imprisonment
THE LEGAL GROUNDS FOR INTERFERENCE
Anti-Terror Law
Art. 7/2

The Editors-in-Chief on Watch campaign of Özgür Gündem daily had begun on May 3, 2016 and ended on August 7, 2016. Daily was closed through the Statutory Decree No. 675 issued under the State of Emergency. Investigations have been launched against 50 of the 56 Editors-in-Chief on Watch who have participated in the solidarity campaign and 38 of them faced prosecution.

Standing trial for having participated in the “Editors-in-Chief on Watch” campaign in solidarity with the closed Özgür Gündem newspaper, journalist and columnist Yıldırım Türker has been sentenced to 1 year and 10 months and 15 days of imprisonment on the grounds of “propagandising for a terrorist organisation” by the 22nd Heavy Penal Court of İstanbul.

The prison sentence was deferred (7 March 2017).