MEDIA MONITORING DATABASE
The lawsuit filed by Ahmet Hakan against Cem Küçük for insult
RELATED PERSON OR INSTITUTION
Cem Küçük
CITY
İstanbul
YEAR OF INTERFERENCE
2015
LAST UPDATED
19/04/2019
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

İstanbul 8th Assize Court ruled that the article, published on 9 February 2015 entitled “The Portrait of a Schizophrenic and PKK Member Thief: Ahmet Hakan”, constitutes insult. The court decided on 10 thousand TL to be paid to Ahmet Hakan as compensation for non-peculiar damage. The trial had started in 2015 upon the lawsuit filed by Ahmet Hakan.