MEDIA MONITORING DATABASE
Barış Yarkadaş – trial for “violation of privacy”
RELATED PERSON OR INSTITUTION
Barış Yarkadaş
CITY
İstanbul
YEAR OF INTERFERENCE
2019
LAST UPDATED
09/06/2019
TYPE OF STATEMENT
Political
MEDIUM
Internet
Internet News Portal
THE TITLE OF WHOSE RIGHT IS INTERFERED
Editor / Editor-In-Chief
RIGHTS GUARANTEED UNDER THE RIGHT OF FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION
Right to Impart Information and Ideas
TYPE OF INTERFERENCE
Judicial Interference
Criminal Courts
Suspension of the execution of the sentences of imprisonment
THE LEGAL GROUNDS FOR INTERFERENCE
Turkish Penal Code

The 68th Criminal Court of First Instance of İstanbul sentenced Barış Yarkadaş, former CHP ex-MP and editor-in-chief of the Gerçek Gündem web-site to 10 months of imprisonment on the grounds of the news published on May 27, 2014, has allegedly violated the privacy of the former, Minister of Environment and Urbanization.