MEDIA MONITORING DATABASE
Investigation due to the article titled “Makus Kaderden Kaçış Yok” – Fatih Polat
RELATED PERSON OR INSTITUTION
Fatih Polat
CITY
İstanbul
YEAR OF INTERFERENCE
2020
LAST UPDATED
14/05/2020
TYPE OF STATEMENT
Political
MEDIUM
Print Media
Newspaper
THE TITLE OF WHOSE RIGHT IS INTERFERED
Editor / Editor-In-Chief
RIGHTS GUARANTEED UNDER THE RIGHT OF FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION
Right to Impart Information and Ideas
TYPE OF INTERFERENCE
Judicial Interference
Public Prosecution Offices
Opening a criminal investigation
THE LEGAL GROUNDS FOR INTERFERENCE
Turkish Penal Code
Art. 309

Editor-in-chief of Evrensel daily, Fatih Polat was called to testify over a column titled “Makus Kaderden Kaçış Yok” [There is No Escape from the Ill Fate] dated 5 May 2020, by writer and publisher Ragıp Zarakolu was published in Evrensel Newspaper and Artı Gerçek website.

Both President and Justice and Development Party (AKP) Chair Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Fahrettin Altun, the presidency’s communications director, had filed a criminal complaint against Zarakolu after the article was published on May 5. Zarakolu is under investigation for “targeting the constitutional order by giving a coup message” over his column.