MEDIA MONITORING DATABASE
Mehmet Ali Çelebi – trial for “propagandizing for a terrorist organization”
RELATED PERSON OR INSTITUTION
Mehmet Ali Çelebi
CITY
İstanbul
YEAR OF INTERFERENCE
2017
LAST UPDATED
21/11/2019
TYPE OF STATEMENT
Political
MEDIUM
Print Media
Periodicals
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
Other
THE LEGAL GROUNDS FOR INTERFERENCE
Press Law

The Istanbul 14th High Criminal Court decided to the drop the case in which Mustafa Sütlaş, İsmail Ağan, Mehmet Ali Çelebi and the managing director for the Tükenmez Magazine Osman Zorba were tried for “propagandising for a terrorist organisation” due to the prescription to open a file in February 2017.