MEDIA MONITORING DATABASE
Lokman Erdoğan – “FETÖ” trial
RELATED PERSON OR INSTITUTION
Lokman Erdoğan
CITY
Çorum
LAST UPDATED
08/06/2019
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
Approval of the indictment and initiating the prosecution
THE LEGAL GROUNDS FOR INTERFERENCE
Turkish Penal Code
Art. 314/2

The journalists on remand, Lokman Erdoğan, columnist for Çorum Manşet newspaper, Çorum Manşet newspaper editor Murat Öztürk, Çorum Yıldız newspaper editor-in-chief Nadir Yücel, Zaman newspaper Çorum Rep. Burçin Dokgöz, CİHAN Agency Çorum reporter İdris Okur and Musa Ayan has been standing trial at the 2nd High Criminal Court of Çorum in the scope of the investigation into FETÖ/PDY. Murat Öztürk has been released from prison in May under the judicial control.