MEDIA MONITORING DATABASE
Tuncay Opçin – trial for “attempting to overthrow the constitutional order”
RELATED PERSON OR INSTITUTION
Tuncay Opçin
CITY
İstanbul
YEAR OF INTERFERENCE
2017
LAST UPDATED
20/04/2019
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. 309

Standing trial within the scope of the FETÖ investigation were author Ahmet Altan, his brother Prof. Dr. Mehmet Altan, journalist Nazlı Ilıcak, then Editor-in-Chief of the closed Zaman daily newspaper Ekrem Dumanlı, former Taraf columnist Emre Uslu, journalist Tuncay Opçin, Samanyolu TV Washington Representative Şemseddin Efe, former Editor-in-Chief of Today’s Zaman newspaper Bülent Keneş, Prof. Dr. Osman Özsoy, Zaman daily correspondent to Israel Abdulkerim Balcı, its vice editor-in-chief Mehmet Kamış and executive Faruk Kardıç, its visual director Fevzi Yazıcı, Police Academy academic member Şükrü Tuğrul Özşengül, Zaman daily brand manager Yakup Şimşek, an employee at newspaper’s culture and art section, Ali Çolak, and Tibet Murat Sanlıman, the owner of the advertising agency that produced Zaman newspaper’s ad released on October 10, 2015 that allegedly evoked the coup.

Istanbul 26th Heavy Penal Court, in charge of handling the case, had ruled to separate the case of defendants Dumanlı, Özsoy, Uslu, Opçin, Balcı, Keneş, Kardıç, Kamış, Efe and Çolak as police had not yet been able to take them into custody despite warrants calling for their detention. This had left a total of seven defendants in the case.