MEDIA MONITORING DATABASE
Zeynep Durgut summoned to depose for “praising the crime and criminal”
RELATED PERSON OR INSTITUTION
Zeynep Durgut
CITY
Şırnak
YEAR OF INTERFERENCE
2021
LAST UPDATED
06/07/2021
TYPE OF STATEMENT
Political
MEDIUM
Internet
News Agency
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
Public Prosecution Offices
Other
THE LEGAL GROUNDS FOR INTERFERENCE
Turkish Penal Code
Art. 215

As part of a new investigation on charge of “praising the crime and criminal”, Mezopotamya Agency (MA) reporter Zeynep Durgut was summoned to give her statement for having reported on an event held by the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) district organization in Cizre district in Şırnak province (July 6).