Ministry of Justice Directorate General of Criminal Records and Statistics announced the criminal statistics of 2017. According to the announcement, investigations were opened against 11 million 833 thousand 926 people. Which means, nine out of a hundred citizens in Turkey were investigated as “suspects.”
During this period, 6,381 investigations within the category described as “crimes against the sovereignty of state and the reputation of its bodies”, including the offense of ‘insulting the President’ as well as the Article 301 of the Turkish Penal Code, were turned into lawsuits. 2,343 of the proceedings made within this category were concluded with convictions in 2017. To reach the full data on criminal statistics:
http://www.adlisicil.adalet.gov.tr/istatistik_2017/istatistik2017.pdf
15.05.2018
adalet.gov.tr