MEDIA MONITORING DATABASE
1-million-lira lawsuit against Yılmaz Özdil
RELATED PERSON OR INSTITUTION
Yılmaz Özdil
CITY
İstanbul
YEAR OF INTERFERENCE
2022
LAST UPDATED
25/05/2022
TYPE OF STATEMENT
Political
MEDIUM
Print Media
Newspaper
THE TITLE OF WHOSE RIGHT IS INTERFERED
Journalist
RIGHTS GUARANTEED UNDER THE RIGHT OF FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION
Right to Impart Information and Ideas
TYPE OF INTERFERENCE
Third-Party Interference
Filing a Compensation Lawsuit
THE LEGAL GROUNDS FOR INTERFERENCE
Turkish Civil Code
Art. 25

Mehmet Cengiz, the Chairperson of the Cengiz Holding’s Board of Directors, filed a lawsuit for damages against journalist Yılmaz Özdil for his column titled “I am announcing my candidate who certainly won” published on April 14, 2022.

Claiming that he was insulted and that his personal rights were damaged, Cengiz demanded 1 million Liras in damages (May 25).