The Constitutional Court have rendered its decision on the application of Akın Atalay, alleging rights violations due to his unlawful detention.
According to the Court, detention order “… was neither arbitrary not unfounded for the investigation authorities to consider that there existed a strong indication of guilt”.
As the charges against the arrest of Akın Atalay, the former chair of the Executive Committee of Cumhuriyet Newspaper, were related to actions under freedom of expression and freedom of the press, the Constitutional Court (AYM) did not find any claims of non-privatized intervention in the context of freedom of the press and no other violation of freedom of expression.”
