MEDIA MONITORING DATABASE
Book ban on Nedim Türfent
RELATED PERSON OR INSTITUTION
Nedim Türfent
CITY
Van
YEAR OF INTERFERENCE
2021
LAST UPDATED
12/10/2021
TYPE OF STATEMENT
Political
MEDIUM
Internet
News Agency
THE TITLE OF WHOSE RIGHT IS INTERFERED
Journalist
RIGHTS GUARANTEED UNDER THE RIGHT OF FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION
Right to Access to Information and Ideas
TYPE OF INTERFERENCE
Third-Party Interference
Other

Sentenced to 8 years, 9 months in prison on charge of “membership of a terrorist organization”, journalist Nedim Türfent’s letter was censored. The prison administration also did not give Türfent the book that he had been sent (October 12).