MEDIA MONITORING DATABASE
Arif Koşar – trial for “insulting the President of the Republic” – 1
RELATED PERSON OR INSTITUTION
Arif Koşar
CITY
İstanbul
YEAR OF INTERFERENCE
2017
LAST UPDATED
14/05/2019
TYPE OF STATEMENT
Political
MEDIUM
Print Media
Newspaper
THE TITLE OF WHOSE RIGHT IS INTERFERED
The Owner (Person) of the Media Outlet
RIGHTS GUARANTEED UNDER THE RIGHT OF FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION
Right to Impart Information and Ideas
TYPE OF INTERFERENCE
Judicial Interference
Criminal Courts
Imposing the fines
THE LEGAL GROUNDS FOR INTERFERENCE
Turkish Penal Code
Art. 299

On May 9, 2017, the 2nd Assize Criminal Court of İstanbul sentenced the former grant holder of Evrensel daily Newspaper Arif Koşar and Vural Nasuhbeyoğlu, the former managing director to 11 months and 20 days of imprisonment for each, due to their article in which they have mentioned a quote from Cemil Bayık’s interview published in the shuttered Azadiya Welat. The prison sentence was substituted with 7000 Turkish Liras of judicial fine.