MEDIA MONITORING DATABASE
Mehmet Sıddık Damar – trial for “propagandizing for a terrorist organization”
RELATED PERSON OR INSTITUTION
Mehmet Sıddık Damar
CITY
Mardin
YEAR OF INTERFERENCE
2018
LAST UPDATED
25/10/2019
TYPE OF STATEMENT
Political
MEDIUM
Internet
Social Media Account
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
Sentence to imprisonment
THE LEGAL GROUNDS FOR INTERFERENCE
Anti-Terror Law
Art. 7/2

The 2nd High Criminal Court of Mardin, with the decision dated 6 October 2017, has released the journalist Mehmet Sıddık Damar, who has been in pre-trial detention for “propagandising for a terrorist organisation” over his social media posts, after having been sentenced to 2 years and 6 months of imprisonment at his first hearing. He had arrested on 18 August and was held in Mardin E Type Closed Prison. The appeal was filed against the decision and journalist was taken into custody on May 1, 2018 and arrested again due to the final prison sentence.

As a result of the application made after the first package of the Judicial Reform was published on the Official Gazette and enacted as law, Damar was released from prison on October 25.