MEDIA MONITORING DATABASE
Taner Talaş – trial for “knowingly and willingly aiding an armed terrorist organization as a non-member”
RELATED PERSON OR INSTITUTION
Taner Talaş
CITY
Adana
YEAR OF INTERFERENCE
2018
LAST UPDATED
24/11/2019
TYPE OF STATEMENT
Political
MEDIUM
Print Media
Newspaper
THE TITLE OF WHOSE RIGHT IS INTERFERED
The Owner (Person) of the Media Outlet
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
Turkish Penal Code
Art. 220/7

On February 16, 2018, the 11th High Criminal Court of Adana acquitted the owner of Adana Medya, Taner Talaş in the case which he was pending trial for “membership in a terrorist organisation [FETÖ]” for 15 years of imprisonment. Upon the objection of the prosecutor against the acquittal, the Regional Court of Justice in Adana decided to give him 2 years and 1-month of imprisonment for “knowingly and willingly aiding an armed terrorist organization as a non-member” on October 24, 2018.