MEDIA MONITORING DATABASE
The Constitutional Court Decision – İdris Sayılğan
RELATED PERSON OR INSTITUTION
İdris Sayılgan
CITY
Trabzon
YEAR OF INTERFERENCE
2016
LAST UPDATED
07/05/2020
TYPE OF STATEMENT
Political
MEDIUM
Internet
News Agency
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
Arrest warrant/Decision for the continuation of arrest
THE LEGAL GROUNDS FOR INTERFERENCE
Turkish Penal Code
Art. 314/2

The Constitutional Court has ruled that an individual application dated 18 July 2018 by İdris Sayılğan, a journalist who had been released by a court of appeal after spending 1,137 days behind bars, was without merit in which journalist İdris Sayılğan. In his application, Sayılğan alleged that his right to personal freedom and security and right to a fair trial was violated.

Closed Dicle News Agency (DİHA) reporter Sayılğan was arrested and sent to Trabzon Prison on October 24, 2016 on charges of “membership of a terrorist organization” and “propagandising for a terrorist organisation”