MEDIA MONITORING DATABASE
Combination of MIT Trucks case against İlker Yücel and Ceyhun Bozkurt with the trial of Can Dündar and Erdem Gül
RELATED PERSON OR INSTITUTION
Ceyhun Bozkurt
CITY
İstanbul
YEAR OF INTERFERENCE
2017
LAST UPDATED
08/05/2019
TYPE OF STATEMENT
Political
MEDIUM
Print Media
Newspaper
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
Approval of the indictment and initiating the prosecution
THE LEGAL GROUNDS FOR INTERFERENCE
Turkish Penal Code
Art. 220/7

The 14th High Criminal Court of Istanbul, Aydınlık newspaper officials trial in which İlker Yücel and Ceyhun Bozkurt are tried for “MIT Track Case” combined with the on-going trial in which Can Dündar and Erdem Gül were tried for “knowingly and willingly aiding an armed terrorist organization as a non-member”. CHP’s arrested deputy Enis Berberoğlu has been sentenced to 25 years in prison (17 September 2017).