MEDIA MONITORING DATABASE
Access block to news on President Erdoğan’s former lawyer
RELATED PERSON OR INSTITUTION
General
CITY
İstanbul
YEAR OF INTERFERENCE
2022
LAST UPDATED
05/10/2022
TYPE OF STATEMENT
Political
MEDIUM
Internet
Internet News Portal
THE TITLE OF WHOSE RIGHT IS INTERFERED
Media Outlet
RIGHTS GUARANTEED UNDER THE RIGHT OF FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION
Right to Impart Information and Ideas
TYPE OF INTERFERENCE
Judicial Interference
Criminal Peace Judgeships
Decision to block access
THE LEGAL GROUNDS FOR INTERFERENCE
Turkish Civil Code
Art. 25

On the grounds of “violation of personality rights” and with its decision dated October 5, 2022 and numbered 2022/6831, the İstanbul Anadolu 4th Criminal Judgeship of Peace imposed an access block on the news regarding the access block imposed on the news about President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s former lawyer Mustafa Doğan İnal and ruled that the related news reports should be deleted (October 5).