MEDIA MONITORING DATABASE
Aytekin Gezici – trial for “membership of FETÖ”
RELATED PERSON OR INSTITUTION
Aytekin Gezici
CITY
Adıyaman
YEAR OF INTERFERENCE
2018
LAST UPDATED
22/11/2019
TYPE OF STATEMENT
Political
MEDIUM
Print Media
Newspaper
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. 314/2

Aytekin Gezici was arrested along with six other journalists as part of an investigation in the aftermath of the July 15 coup attempt. Gezici was jailed pending trial two days later, on July 25, 2016.

The 11th High Criminal Court of Adana sentenced arrested journalist Aytekin Gezici 9 years of imprisonment in the case in which he was accused of “membership in a terrorist organisation [FETÖ]” on February 16, 2018.