MEDIA MONITORING DATABASE
Perihan Kaya – trial for “insulting the President of the Republic”
RELATED PERSON OR INSTITUTION
Perihan Kaya
CITY
Diyarbakır
YEAR OF INTERFERENCE
2021
LAST UPDATED
04/11/2021
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
Judicial Interference
Criminal Courts
Sentence to imprisonment
THE LEGAL GROUNDS FOR INTERFERENCE
Turkish Penal Code
Art. 299

Journalist Perihan Kaya stood trial at the Diyarbakır 3rd Criminal Court of First Instance on charge of “insulting the President of the Republic” over her social media posts.

At the second hearing of the case held on November 4, 2021, Kaya was sentenced to 11 months, 20 days in prison for “insulting the President of the Republic” (November 4).