MEDIA MONITORING DATABASE
Constitutional Court – Decision on Nihat Behram
RELATED PERSON OR INSTITUTION
Nihat Behram
CITY
Ankara
YEAR OF INTERFERENCE
2018
LAST UPDATED
26/04/2019
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
Civil Courts
Compensation decision
THE LEGAL GROUNDS FOR INTERFERENCE
Turkish Civil Code
Art. 25

The Constitutional Court, with the decision dated 11 July 2018, concluded that Nihat Behram shall be paid a compensation of 4.000 Turkish Liras for non-pecuinary damages, and 2206 Turkish Liras for judicial expenses regarding his sentence to pay compensation by the 25th Civil Court of First Instance of Ankara for his piece, “Vız gelir” (I don’t give a damn) through which he has criticized the former Mayor of Ankara Metropolitan Municipality, Melih Gökçek.