MEDIA MONITORING DATABASE
Access block to Gerçek Gündem’s news report
RELATED PERSON OR INSTITUTION
Gerçek Gündem
CITY
Ankara
YEAR OF INTERFERENCE
2023
LAST UPDATED
25/01/2023
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

With the decision of the Ankara 7th Criminal Judgeship of Peace dated January 25, 2023, an access block was imposed on Elif Ünsal’s news report published on Gerçek Gündem news portal and featuring the allegations of CHP İzmir MP Murat Bakan about the caderization of sects in security bureaucracy. The request for the block was made by the Anti-Cyber Crimes’ Bureau of the Ministry of Interior’s Gendarmerie General Command  (January 26).