MEDIA MONITORING DATABASE
Necati Savaş – trial for “violation of confidentiality order”
RELATED PERSON OR INSTITUTION
Necati Savaş
CITY
İstanbul
YEAR OF INTERFERENCE
2017
LAST UPDATED
15/05/2019
TYPE OF STATEMENT
Political
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
Criminal Courts
Decision of acquittal
THE LEGAL GROUNDS FOR INTERFERENCE
The Law on the Establishment of Radio and Television Enterprises and Their Media Services
Art. 7/1

The 2nd Criminal Court of First Instance in İstanbul decided on the acquittal of Sinan Tartanoğlu, Alican Uludağ, Ozan Selahattin Çepni and Necati Savaş, Ankara correspondents of daily Cumhuriyet on December 21, 2017. They were standing trial with the charge of “violation of confidentiality” due to their reports pertaining the bomb attack in Kızılay / Ankara in March 2016, during the broadcast ban.