MEDIA MONITORING DATABASE
Investigation against Yaşar Anter over a news on boat
RELATED PERSON OR INSTITUTION
Yaşar Anter
CITY
Muğla
YEAR OF INTERFERENCE
2020
LAST UPDATED
15/03/2020
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
Public Prosecution Offices
Opening a criminal investigation
THE LEGAL GROUNDS FOR INTERFERENCE
Turkish Penal Code
Art. 213

Journalist Yaşar Anter was arrested due to an article published at Sözcü Newspaper, on the Sheikh of Dubai’s boat anchored to the coast of Bodrum, a district of Muğla. An investigation is launched against journalist for allegedly “threatening with the intention of causing fear and panic among the public”. Public prosecutor requested journalist to be arrested, however, the court released journalist deciding that there was no reasonable doubt demonstrating the crime was committed. (15 March)