MEDIA MONITORING DATABASE
Ayşenur Arslan – trial for “insulting the President of the Republic”
RELATED PERSON OR INSTITUTION
Ayşenur Arslan
CITY
Ankara
YEAR OF INTERFERENCE
2018
LAST UPDATED
09/06/2019
TYPE OF STATEMENT
Political
MEDIUM
Television
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
Suspension of the execution of the sentences of imprisonment
THE LEGAL GROUNDS FOR INTERFERENCE
Turkish Penal Code
Art. 299

Journalist Ayşenur Arslan was sentenced to 1 year and 2 months of imprisonment in a case where she had been indicted for “insulting the President of Republic” due to her comments on an episode of her television show Medya Mahallesi (The Media Quarter) that had aired more than two years ago. The court reduced her sentence to 11 months and 20 days. The sentence was deferred.