MEDIA MONITORING DATABASE
Rasim Ozan Kütahyalı trial for “publicly degrading a section of society based on differences of social class, religion, sect, gender, region”
RELATED PERSON OR INSTITUTION
Rasim Ozan Kütahyalı
CITY
İstanbul
YEAR OF INTERFERENCE
2019
LAST UPDATED
14/11/2019
TYPE OF STATEMENT
Other
THE TITLE OF WHOSE RIGHT IS INTERFERED
Journalist
TYPE OF INTERFERENCE
Judicial Interference
Criminal Courts
Approval of the indictment and initiating the prosecution

Rasim Ozan Kütahyalı has stood trial on the grounds of his comments in a TV show titled, “Beyaz Futbol” broadcasted on November 19, 2017, on the Beyaz TV channel. The Bosnian Organisations complained a file against him for his comments. After the investigation launched into him, the indictment was accepted by the 27th Criminal Court of First Instance of Istanbul. Kütahyalı is on trial for “Provoking the Public to Hatred, Hostility or Degrading” the people who have Bosnian origin. As he did not show up at the trial, he got caught on July 19 and brought to the 5th Criminal Court of First Instance of Istanbul. Kütahyalı was released after giving his deposition at the courthouse (30 July)

In the last hearing held on September 13, 2019, the court sentenced him 10 months imprisonment and did not defer the sentence (13 September)