"Turkey’s top court: Leaking of telephone conversation to media justified
13.01.2010 20:24 GMT+04:00 Print version Send to mail
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Turkey’s top court has ruled that the leaking of a telephone conversation to the media cannot be considered a violation of privacy because it benefits the public.
The ruling by the Supreme Court of Appeals concerned the phone conversations of Erhan Tuncel, a police informant, whose role in the 2007 murder of Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink has yet to be determined. Police officer Muhittin Zenit, whose phone conversation with Tuncel was leaked to the press, had demanded damages from the court.
Zenit had argued that the rule regarding the “confidentiality of investigation” had been violated by the publication of his conversation with Tuncel and that he was made a target. He also filed lawsuits against some media outlets that published or broadcast the conversation."
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