MEDIA MONITORING DATABASE
Alaattin Akkaşoğlu – trial for “membership of an armed terrorist organization”
RELATED PERSON OR INSTITUTION
Alaattin Akkaşoğlu
CITY
İstanbul
YEAR OF INTERFERENCE
2019
LAST UPDATED
21/11/2019
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
Approval of the indictment and initiating the prosecution
THE LEGAL GROUNDS FOR INTERFERENCE
Turkish Penal Code
Art. 314/2

The “Karşı newspaper trial,” where 12 defendants, including the former publisher of the shuttered daily, Turan Ababey, and the newspaper’s former employees, including its one-time editor in chief Eren Erdem, stand accused of various criminal charges on account of their work at the newspaper, got under way on 31 October in Istanbul.

The indictment for the merged case file seeks up to 15 years of imprisonment for Alaaddin Akkaşoğlu, the owner of the newspaper’s website, karşıgazete.com, and a partner of the shuttered Akis Publications for “knowingly and willingly aiding an armed terrorist organization without being its member.”  The prosecution had also asked for the separation of the files of Allattin Akkaşoğlu.

The hearings have continued on 7-8-9-10-11 January 2019.