Compensations Punish Opinions

The Civil Court of First Instance is waiting for the decision of the Supreme Court of Appeals to prosecute the compensation case against caricaturist Muhammet Şengöz, who was tried for criticizing Kocaeli Mayor İbrahim Karaosmanoğlu with his caricatures.

Reacting to the billboards the mayor had planted around the town, on which imaginary citizens asked the mayor what was his next deed, Muhammet Şengöz's caricature had an imaginary citizen with his back turned and pants down, asking the mayor who will be the next person.

The mayor is asking for 5000 euro

 Karaosmanoğlu's reply was a criminal lawsuit against the caricaturist, followed by a civil suit for damages in 5000 Euro.

The caricaturist was sentenced to 11 months and 20 days in jail on September 21, 2007. Having his sentence converted to a fine of 3500 euro, Şengöz’s lawyer Suat Temoçin appealed the verdict.

The hearing for the damages that was held today will continue on December 25.

Publisher Erdoğdu, Güner and Akçam are sentenced “partially”

Following the complaint by Republican People’s Party deputy and retired ambassador Şükrü Elekdağ against the Blue Book, full title of which was “The Treatment of the Armenians in the Ottoman Empire between 1915-16” ,  Pencere Publishing representative Muzaffer Erdoğdu, translator Ahmet Güner and historian Taner Akçam, whose article appeared in the book, have been sentenced by the court to compensate the complainant. for the damages The accused plan to appeal the verdict.

What is the Blue Book?

The book that caused the above trial, which is also known as the Blue Book, is about the investigation conducted by James Bryce and Arnold Toynbee for the English government in February 1916 to determine what happened to the Ottoman Armenians.

The book that had come out at the end of this investigation was printed in blue cover and dispersed in the English Parliament. (EÖ/EÜ/TB)