Nazlı Ilıcak

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Nazlı Ilıcak (born November 14, 1944 in Ankara ) is a Turkish journalist and former member of the Fazilet Partisi (Virtue Party).

Ilıcak is the daughter of the former Minister Muammer Çavuşoğlu . She attended the French grammar school Notre Dame de Sion Fransız Lisesi in Istanbul and then studied at the University of Lausanne . In 1969 she married the owner of the Tercüman newspaper , Kemal Ilıcak . The marriage produced a son and a daughter. Until 1988, Ilıcak headed the Tercüman Group's Bulvar newspaper . Between 1992 and 1994 she hosted a political program for the state broadcaster TRT . Ilıcak also wrote for numerous daily newspapers.

In the parliamentary elections in Turkey in 1999 , Ilıcak won a seat for the Islamist Fazilet Partisi. She became known because she accompanied MP Merve Kavakçı during the swearing-in ceremony , who wanted to take the oath with a headscarf, which was forbidden and caused a sensation. The party was banned in 2001. Ilıcak lost her mandate and was banned from politics for five years. In 2011, Ilıcak ran internally for membership as a candidate for the ruling AKP party , but was not nominated.

The Sabah newspaper broke up with Ilıcak in late 2013 due to "disagreements" after writing some articles critical of the government and calling for ministers to resign over the embezzlement affair on a television broadcast. Ilıcak commented on her expulsion with the tweet "Instead of my personality, I have lost my job". From March 2014, Ilıcak worked as a presenter for a channel D broadcast . The show was discontinued at the end of 2015.

In 2015, she was on trial for insulting Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu and the judge ordered a forced appearance.

Arrest and Detention

Ilıcak, whose proximity to the Gülen network was known, was arrested a few days after the attempted coup in Bodrum as part of the measures following the attempted coup in Turkey in 2016 . Pretrial detention was imposed at the end of July 2016. In the main indictment of the Istanbul Public Prosecutor's Office, Ilıcak and the brothers Mehmet Altan and Ahmet Altan are described as "elements in the media who took part in an attempted coup by a terrorist organization ". According to press reports, you are said to have made “subliminal” hints about the impending coup in a broadcast. On February 16, 2018, like the Altan brothers and three other journalists, she was sentenced to life imprisonment.

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hürriyet, December 19, 2013
  2. ↑ Hürriyet of December 8, 2015
  3. ↑ Hürriyet of February 22, 2017
  4. ↑ World of February 16, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Ilıcak, Nazlı
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Turkish journalist and former politician
DATE OF BIRTH November 14, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Ankara