MEDIA MONITORING DATABASE
A critical article by Özlem Albayrak was not published by her affiliated newspaper
RELATED PERSON OR INSTITUTION
Özlem Albayrak
CITY
İstanbul
YEAR OF INTERFERENCE
2019
LAST UPDATED
14/11/2019
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
De Facto Obstruction of Expression

A columnist for Yeni Şafak, Özlem Albayrak wrote an article criticising the 9 months and 8 months of prison sentence given to Canan Kaftancıoğlu on the grounds of her social media posts. She announced that her newspaper which she had worked for years refused to publish her article and thus she resigned.