MEDIA MONITORING DATABASE
MHP’s Semih Yalçın targets the media – Halk TV
RELATED PERSON OR INSTITUTION
Halk TV
CITY
İstanbul
YEAR OF INTERFERENCE
2024
LAST UPDATED
22/08/2024
TYPE OF STATEMENT
Political
MEDIUM
Television
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
Third-Party Interference
Threat or Harassment

Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) Deputy Chairman Semih Yalçın targeted the pro-opposition media in a written statement issued on 22 August. Part of Yalçın’s statement read: “The media, funded by FETÖ and the West, with its partisan media outlets, especially Halk TV, Sözcü TV and Cumhuriyet newspaper, are trying to attack and silence anyone who goes after the CHP’s political corruption and defends the rights of the nation.