MEDIA MONITORING DATABASE
Hakan Bülent Yardımcı – trial for “knowingly and willingly aiding an armed terrorist organization as a non-member”
RELATED PERSON OR INSTITUTION
Hakan Bülent Yardımcı
CITY
Adana
YEAR OF INTERFERENCE
2018
LAST UPDATED
22/11/2019
TYPE OF STATEMENT
Political
MEDIUM
Print Media
Newspaper
THE TITLE OF WHOSE RIGHT IS INTERFERED
The Owner (Person) of the Media Outlet
RIGHTS GUARANTEED UNDER THE RIGHT OF FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION
Right to Impart Information and Ideas
TYPE OF INTERFERENCE
Judicial Interference
Criminal Courts
Sentence to imprisonment
THE LEGAL GROUNDS FOR INTERFERENCE
Turkish Penal Code
Art. 220/7

On February 16, 2018, the 11th High Criminal Court of Adana acquitted the owner of daily Ekspres Hakan Bülent Yardımcı in the case which he was pending trial for “membership in a terrorist organisation [FETÖ]”. Upon the objection of the prosecutor against the acquittal, the Regional Court of  Justice of Adana decided to sentence Yardımcı to 2 years and 1-month of imprisonment for “knowingly and willingly aiding an armed terrorist organization as a non-member” on October 24, 2018.