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A compensation lawsuit against Cumhuriyet newspaper columnist Barış Terkoğlu
RELATED PERSON OR INSTITUTION
Barış Terkoğlu
CITY
İstanbul
YEAR OF INTERFERENCE
2020
LAST UPDATED
25/02/2020
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

Upon the complaint of President Erdogan’s son-in-law and Minister of Treasury and Finance Berat Albayrak due to the article “Damat n’oluyo, elin kolun oynuyo” about Trabzonspor, a compensation lawsuit of 100 thousand TL was filed against Cumhuriyet newspaper columnist Barış Terkoğlu and newspaper official Alev Coşkun  (25 February).