MEDIA MONITORING DATABASE
Yılmaz Odabaşı – trial for “insulting the President of the Republic”
RELATED PERSON OR INSTITUTION
Yılmaz Odabaşı
CITY
Ankara
YEAR OF INTERFERENCE
2016
LAST UPDATED
20/06/2019
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
Suspension of the execution of the sentences of imprisonment
THE LEGAL GROUNDS FOR INTERFERENCE
Turkish Penal Code
Art. 299

The Bakırköy Prosecutor’s Office filed a lawsuit against the poet-writer Yılmaz Odabaşı under Article 299/1 of TCK regarding his article entitled “Zamanın Vicdanında İki Mahkum” published on September 3, 2015.

Odabaşı was sentenced to 1 year and 8 months of imprisonment at the final hearing of 25 January 2017 of the case which was held in the 2nd Criminal Court of First Instance of Istanbul Büyükçekmece Courthouse. The prison sentence was deferred.