MEDIA MONITORING DATABASE
Zaman Newspaper Adana Rep. Bilal Öğütçü – The trial for “membership in a terrorist organization”
RELATED PERSON OR INSTITUTION
Bilal Öğütçü
CITY
Adana
YEAR OF INTERFERENCE
2016
LAST UPDATED
19/04/2019
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. 314/2

Arrested journalists Aytekin Gezici and Abdullah Özyurt, Zaman Newspaper Adana Rep. Bilal Öğütçü and Hasan Ertaş who are being sought by arrest warrant and Yüksel Evsen, Taner Talaş, Hakan Bülent Yardımcı, Rıfat Söylemez, Ali Pekmezci, TGS Adana Branch Chairsperson Salim Büyükkaya, Abdurrahim Haklıkul, Mustafa Naim Yalçınel and Osman Palamut who are pending trial, are prosecuted with the charge of being a member of FETÖ and facing up to 15 years of imprisonment each.

On 12 July 2017, Adana 11th Heavy Criminal Court decided to separate the files of Bilal Öğütçü and Hasan Ertaş. The trial is adjourned until 16 February 2018.