MEDIA MONITORING DATABASE
Fatma Ölmez – trial for “membership of PKK”, “propagandizing for PKK”
RELATED PERSON OR INSTITUTION
Fatma Ölmez
CITY
Mersin
YEAR OF INTERFERENCE
2017
LAST UPDATED
06/05/2019
TYPE OF STATEMENT
Political
MEDIUM
Radio
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 7th High Criminal Court of Mersin released the journalist Fatma Ölmez, who was arrested with the charge of “membership in a terrorist organisation [PKK]” and “propagandising for a terrorist organisation [PKK]” at her first hearing on May 18, 2017.  Ölmez was one of 72 people arrested on 2 December 2016 for the operation against HDP.