MEDIA MONITORING DATABASE
The Constitutional Court Decision – Ahmet Şık
RELATED PERSON OR INSTITUTION
Ahmet Şık
CITY
İstanbul
YEAR OF INTERFERENCE
2016
LAST UPDATED
23/09/2019
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 Peace Judgeships
Issuing an arrest warrant
THE LEGAL GROUNDS FOR INTERFERENCE
Turkish Penal Code
Art. 220/7

The Constitutional Court announced it decision on the application by Ahmet Şık, alleging that his detention had violated his several rights. The Court found inadmissible the alleged violations of the right to personal liberty and security safeguarded by Article 19 of the Constitution, as well as the freedoms of expression and the press that are respectively safeguarded by Articles 26 and 28 of the Constitution, as being manifestly ill-founded.

 

ADDITIONAL DOCUMENTS
Case of Ahmet Şık (no. 2017/5375) (Link)
Press Release 26/06/2019
https://www.anayasa.gov.tr/en/news/individual-application/press-release-concerning-the-alleged-violations-of-the-right-to-personal-liberty-and-security-and-the-freedoms-of-expression-and-the-press-due-to-detention-of-certain-journalists/