{"id":52609,"date":"2026-03-31T16:11:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T16:11:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/52609\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T16:11:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T16:11:11","slug":"turkish-journalist-faces-over-19-years-on-alleged-insult-of-erdogan-disinformation-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/52609\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkish journalist faces over 19 years on alleged insult of Erdo\u011fan, disinformation charges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <a href=\"https:\/\/stockholmcf.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Alican-Uludag.jpg\" data-caption=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"435\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=\" http:=\"\" data-lazy- data-lazy- alt=\"\" title=\"Alican Uludag\u0306\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Alican-Uludag-696x435.jpg\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"435\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Alican-Uludag-696x435.jpg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"Alican Uludag\u0306\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A Turkish prosecutor has sought a prison sentence of more than 19 years for journalist Alican Uluda\u011f over social media posts that allegedly insulted President Recep Tayyip Erdo\u011fan and spread disinformation, the Evrensel daily <a href=\"mailto:https:\/\/www.evrensel.net\/haber\/5977441\/gazeteci-alican-uludag-hakkinda-iddianame-duzenlendi-19-yil-6-aya-kadar-hapis-istemi\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The \u0130stanbul Public Prosecutor\u2019s Office on Monday filed an indictment with the \u0130stanbul 26th Court of First Instance seeking a sentence of up to 19 years, six months on charges of insulting the president, publicly insulting the Turkish government and judiciary and disseminating misleading information.<\/p>\n<p>Under the Turkish Penal Code the charges carry sentences of up to four years for insulting the president, up to three years for disseminating misleading information and up to two years for publicly insulting the state and its judicial organs, with the total potentially rising to 19-and-a-half years if sentence increases for repeated offenses are applied.<\/p>\n<p>Uluda\u011f was detained in Ankara on March 19 over 22 social media posts that prosecutors said constituted repeated and public insults of President Erdo\u011fan. The \u0130stanbul Criminal Magistrate of Peace\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:https:\/\/stockholmcf.org\/turkish-journalist-arrested-over-alleged-insult-of-erdogan-in-social-media-posts\/\">ordered his arrest<\/a> citing flight risk, the possibility of destroying or concealing evidence and a strong suspicion of witness tampering.<\/p>\n<p>Bar associations and press freedom groups in Turkey have <a href=\"mailto:https:\/\/stockholmcf.org\/turkish-bar-associations-press-groups-condemn-arrest-of-journalists-as-alarming\/\">condemned<\/a> the arrest, warning that penalizing reporting undermines the public\u2019s right to access accurate information and restricts press freedom and freedom of expression.<\/p>\n<p>Journalists in Turkey operate in an increasingly restrictive environment, particularly those reporting on politically sensitive issues or criticizing the government or its political allies. They are frequently targeted through prosecutions under laws criminalizing \u201cinsulting public officials,\u201d \u201cdisinformation\u201d and \u201cdisseminating terrorist propaganda.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to Expression Interrupted, a press freedom monitoring group, 33 journalists\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/expressioninterrupted.com\/tr\/liste.php\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">are<\/a>\u00a0currently behind bars in Turkey. The country\u2019s deteriorating media landscape was further pointed out in the 2025 World Press Freedom Index published by Reporters Without Borders, where it was\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/rsf.org\/en\/country-t%C3%BCrkiye\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ranked<\/a>\u00a0159th out of 180 nations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Turkish prosecutor has sought a prison sentence of more than 19 years for journalist Alican Uluda\u011f over&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":52610,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[83],"tags":[16138,145,312,12589,429,2033,18505,29088,131,132,155],"class_list":{"0":"post-52609","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-stockholm","8":"tag-alican-uludag","9":"tag-arrested-journalists","10":"tag-human-rights","11":"tag-insulting-the-president","12":"tag-oppression","13":"tag-press-freedom","14":"tag-publicly-disseminating-misleading-information","15":"tag-publicly-insulting-the-turkish-government-and-judiciary","16":"tag-stockholm","17":"tag-sweden","18":"tag-turkey"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/116324668899692155","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52609\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}