{"id":72143,"date":"2026-04-30T17:03:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T17:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/72143\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T17:03:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T17:03:09","slug":"jailed-turkish-journalist-faces-new-criminal-case-over-reposted-news-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/72143\/","title":{"rendered":"Jailed Turkish journalist faces new criminal case over reposted news report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <a href=\"https:\/\/stockholmcf.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Ismail-Ari.jpeg\" data-caption=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=\" http:=\"\" data-lazy- data-lazy- alt=\"\" title=\"I\u0307smail Ar\u0131\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Ismail-Ari-696x392.jpeg\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Ismail-Ari-696x392.jpeg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"I\u0307smail Ar\u0131\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A new criminal case has been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.birgun.net\/haber\/cezaevindeyken-yeni-bir-davam-oldu-709388\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">opened<\/a> against jailed Turkish journalist \u0130smail Ar\u0131 on accusations of insulting a public official after he retweeted a 2023 news report about a former Ankara police chief, the BirG\u00fcn daily reported.<\/p>\n<p>The report, published by Sendika.org, concerned a complaint filed by the main opposition Republican People\u2019s Party (CHP) against Mukadder Kardiyen, a former Ankara deputy provincial police chief. The indictment was drafted by the Ankara Chief Public Prosecutor\u2019s Office on April 8 following a complaint from the Ankara Police Department.<\/p>\n<p>Ar\u0131 has been in <a href=\"https:\/\/stockholmcf.org\/turkish-court-orders-arrest-of-journalist-on-disinformation-charges\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">pretrial detention<\/a> since March on separate charges of publicly disseminating misleading information. Prosecutors in that case cited his reporting and social media posts on foundations linked to family members of President Recep Tayyip Erdo\u011fan, alleged\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.birgun.net\/haber\/kamu-vakfi-naylon-faturalarla-soyulmus-583161\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">irregularities<\/a>\u00a0at the state-run Yunus Emre Institute, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.birgun.net\/haber\/tarihi-yapilar-gozden-cikarildi-698399\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">construction<\/a>\u00a0on a cultural heritage site near Erdo\u011fan\u2019s former school and judicial appointments.<\/p>\n<p>Ar\u0131 described the new case as selective, saying many others had shared the same report without facing prosecution. He said he had faced multiple investigations and criminal cases in recent years, often requiring him to report to police stations or attend court hearings and questioned why he was being targeted for his journalism.<\/p>\n<p>The first hearing is scheduled for September 17 at the Ankara 47th Criminal Court of First Instance.<\/p>\n<p>Independent journalists in Turkey have faced increasing legal pressure under laws criminalizing insulting public officials, disinformation and terrorist propaganda.<\/p>\n<p>According to Expression Interrupted, a press freedom monitoring group, 26 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 2026 World Press Freedom Index published by Reporters Without Borders (RSF), where it was\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/rsf.org\/en\/country-t%C3%BCrkiye\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ranked<\/a>\u00a0163rd out of 180 nations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A new criminal case has been opened against jailed Turkish journalist \u0130smail Ar\u0131 on accusations of insulting a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":72144,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[83],"tags":[21941,39120,11960,39121,39122,2033,39123,131,132,155],"class_list":["post-72143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-stockholm","tag-independent-journalism","tag-insulting-a-public-off","tag-ismail-ari","tag-jailed-journalists","tag-mukadder-kardiyen","tag-press-freedom","tag-sendika-org","tag-stockholm","tag-sweden","tag-turkey"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/116494742893882113","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72143","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=72143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72143\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}