MEDIA MONITORING DATABASE
ECtHR – Decision on Yalçın Ergündoğan
RELATED PERSON OR INSTITUTION
Yalçın Ergündoğan
CITY
Ankara
YEAR OF INTERFERENCE
2018
LAST UPDATED
25/11/2019
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 Courts
Imposing the fines
THE LEGAL GROUNDS FOR INTERFERENCE
Turkish Penal Code
Art. 125/1

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) ruled that columnist Yalçın Ergündoğan’s right to freedom of expression was violated on 17 April 2017  due to a fine he sentenced for a 2005 column published in daily BirGün during his time as a columnist for that paper. However, the ECtHR did not grant him compensation.