MEDIA MONITORING DATABASE
Profiling of 20 journalists, including TGS and DFG Chairs, by the Security Directorate
RELATED PERSON OR INSTITUTION
General
YEAR OF INTERFERENCE
2022
LAST UPDATED
05/09/2022
TYPE OF STATEMENT
Political
MEDIUM
Other
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
Interferences by the Executive Power
Executive and Administration
THE LEGAL GROUNDS FOR INTERFERENCE
Anti-Terror Law

The Directorate General of Security Foreign Relations Department sent a file of profiling classified “top secret” to the Provincial Directorates of Security of Ağrı, Ankara, Antalya, Diyarbakır, Giresun, İstanbul, İzmir, Kahramanmaraş, Kocaeli, Sivas and Trabzon. The file was based on the intelligence collected in relation to the Fethullah Gülen Community. It turned out that the Directorate General of Security profiled 20 journalists, including Journalists’ Union of Turkey (TGS) Chair Gökhan Durmuş and Dicle Fırat Journalists’ Association (DFG) Co-Chair Dicle Müftüoğlu (September 5).