Journalist Arafat Dayan is facing the charge of “making propaganda for a terrorist organization” in a recently filed criminal lawsuit. The court issued an arrest warrant for Dayan

CANSU PİŞKİN, İSTANBUL

Journalist Arafat Dayan is charged with “making propaganda for a terrorist organization” under Article 7/2 of the Anti-Terror Law (TMK) over his social media posts in a new indictment.

Issued by the Mersin Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office on 25 March 2022, the indictment cites five social media posts Dayan shared in November 2020 on Twitter as evidence for the accusation.

The indictment read, “It is hereby requested, on behalf of the public, that the suspect, who has successively committed the imputed crime of making propaganda for a terrorist organization by means of sharing posts that would justify the PKK/KCK terrorist organization’s methods that contained force, threat and violence and that would encourage resorting to such methods, be punished.”

The indictment was accepted by the Mersin 7th High Criminal Court. In the preliminary proceedings report, dated 6 April 2022, the court issued an arrest warrant against Dayan. The first hearing in the trial will be held on 7 October 2022.