MEDIA MONITORING DATABASE
Representative of EFY, Mehmet Köksal was expelled from court room
RELATED PERSON OR INSTITUTION
Mehmet Köksal
CITY
Adana
YEAR OF INTERFERENCE
2017
LAST UPDATED
06/04/2019
TYPE OF STATEMENT
Other
MEDIUM
Other
THE TITLE OF WHOSE RIGHT IS INTERFERED
Professional Association of Journalism
RIGHTS GUARANTEED UNDER THE RIGHT OF FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION
Right to Access to Information and Ideas
TYPE OF INTERFERENCE
Judicial Interference
Criminal Courts
Other

At the hearing held on 10 March 2017, the judge of the Adana 11th High Criminal Court expelled IFJ Deputy Secretary General Oliver Money-Kyrle and EFJ representative Mehmet Köksal from the court room, claiming that they violated the court’s rules by “chewing gum” although they were not. He continued stating political messages regarding the West.