MEDIA MONITORING DATABASE
Access ban to Barış Terkoğlu’s article on child abuse
RELATED PERSON OR INSTITUTION
Barış Terkoğlu
CITY
Elazığ
YEAR OF INTERFERENCE
2018
LAST UPDATED
26/02/2020
MEDIUM
Internet
Internet News Portal
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
Judicial Interference
Criminal Peace Judgeships
Decision to block access

Oda TV News Editor Barış Terkoğlu, covered a child abuse story of a 17 year old who was a member of “Alperen Ocakları” (a far-right youth organization related to the Great Unity Party), which was published on 15 November 2018. Within few hours Elazığ 1st Peace Criminal Judgeship ordered an access ban to the article.

Journalist was tried and sentenced to a judicial fine, for the same article.