MEDIA MONITORING DATABASE
Access block to Özgür Şen’s article
RELATED PERSON OR INSTITUTION
Özgür Şen
YEAR OF INTERFERENCE
2019
LAST UPDATED
02/10/2019
TYPE OF STATEMENT
Political
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
Interferences by the Executive Power
Executive and Administration
Other

Access to the column titled “AKP’s incompetent army” by Özgür Şen, one of the soL News Portal writers, was blocked for users working at public institutions affiliated to the Ministry of Health.

When the page was clicked, the warning, ‘access denied’ popped up. The note below the warning was: ‘Due to the security policies set by your system administrator, the access of users is denied’.

SoL readers working in public institutions have access to all the pages and the writings of all authors, but not to Özgür Şen (May 2).