{"id":61577,"date":"2014-11-07T12:58:21","date_gmt":"2014-11-07T12:58:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/?p=61577"},"modified":"2017-03-23T17:07:34","modified_gmt":"2017-03-23T17:07:34","slug":"kemal-goktas-charged-criticize-police-turkey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/?p=61577","title":{"rendered":"Turkish journalist faces jail for &#8220;insulting a public official&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_61589\" style=\"width: 710px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-61589\" class=\"wp-image-61589\" src=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/turkey-journalist.gif\" alt=\"Kemal G\u00f6kta\u015f (Photo: @kemalgoktas)\" width=\"700\" height=\"467\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-61589\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kemal G\u00f6kta\u015f (Photo: @kemalgoktas)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A Turkish journalist was charged on Tuesday for &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.milliyet.com.tr\/-algi-olusturma-iddiasiyla--gundem-1964507\/\">insulting a public official<\/a>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<p>Kemal G\u00f6kta\u015f, a reporter for Turkish paper Milliyet, faces up to two years and four months in prison for <a href=\"http:\/\/kemal-goktas.blogspot.co.uk\/2014\/11\/gazeteciye-alg-olusturma-davas.html\">criticising the sentence<\/a> of a police officer who beat a woman in custody. The victim\u00a0called for eight years imprisonment, but the officer was handed down a one-year jail sentence.<\/p>\n<p>G\u00f6kta\u015f\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.milliyet.com.tr\/dovulenle-bunu-duyuran-suclu--gundem-1950648\/\">last article<\/a> on the case appeared on Milliyet\u2019s website on 6 October. He\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.agos.com.tr\/haber.php?seo=haberimde-savcinin-polisleri-korumasi-algi-degil-olgu&amp;haberid=8529\">told Agos<\/a>\u00a0that his case is not only a violation of press freedom, but also a human rights violation.\u00a0He is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bianet.org\/english\/freedom-of-expression\/159706-journalist-sued-for-calling-torture-case-a-scandal\">will testify<\/a>\u00a0on 14 November.<\/p>\n<p>In 2009, G\u00f6kta\u015f was acquitted of similar charges after publishing articles criticising &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bianet.org\/english\/freedom-of-expression\/159706-journalist-sued-for-calling-torture-case-a-scandal\">general surveillance permission<\/a>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<p>The incident was reported to <a href=\"http:\/\/mediafreedom.ushahidi.com\/\">mediafreedom.ushahihi.com<\/a>, Index on Censorship&#8217;s media violations mapping project.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mediafreedom.ushahidi.com\/search?k=Turkey&amp;b=Search\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-61585\" src=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/turkey-map-110714.gif\" alt=\"turkey-map-110714\" width=\"620\" height=\"347\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/2014\/11\/kemal-goktas-charged-criticize-police-turkey\/\">This article was originally posted on indexoncensorship.org\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Turkish journalist was charged on Tuesday for \u201cinsulting a public official.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":319,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[4059,581,55],"tags":[904,6796,832,7355],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61577"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/319"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61577"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87175,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61577\/revisions\/87175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}