MEDIA MONITORING DATABASE
Serpil Ünal – trial for “propagandizing for a terrorist organization”
RELATED PERSON OR INSTITUTION
Serpil Ünal
CITY
İstanbul
YEAR OF INTERFERENCE
2018
LAST UPDATED
09/03/2021
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 Courts
Sentence to imprisonment
THE LEGAL GROUNDS FOR INTERFERENCE
Anti-Terror Law
Art. 7/2

The editor of Mücadele Birliği Süleyman Acar, Önsöz Journal’s editor Songül Yücel and reporter of Mücadele Birliği Serpil Ünal were taken into custody on 24 March 2018 by a police raid.

Charged with “propagandizing for a terrorist organization” over their social media posts about Turkey’s Afrin operation, Acar, Yücel and Ünal stood trial at the İstanbul 36th High Criminal Court.

At the hearing held on March 9, 2021, the court board sentenced Süleyman Acar, Songül Yücel and Serpil Ünal to 1 year, 6 months and 22 days in prison for “propagandizing for a terrorist organization. While the pronouncement of the verdicts of Yücel and Ünal has been deferred, that of Acar has not been deferred as she was penalized on another charge before (March 9).