MEDIA MONITORING DATABASE
Access block to a news report on Cumhuriyet newspaper
RELATED PERSON OR INSTITUTION
Cumhuriyet Newspaper
CITY
Ankara
YEAR OF INTERFERENCE
2020
LAST UPDATED
14/10/2020
TYPE OF STATEMENT
Political
MEDIUM
Internet
Internet News Portal
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
Judicial Interference
Criminal Peace Judgeships
Decision to block access
THE LEGAL GROUNDS FOR INTERFERENCE
Law on Regulating Broadcasting (Publication) in the Internet and Fighting Against Crimes Committed by Means of Such Broadcasting

The Ankara 4th Criminal Judgeship of Peace has imposed an access block on a news report published on Cumhuriyet newspaper for allegedly “targeting personal rights.” The related news report was about the allegation that after the Ministry of Agriculture took the lighting posts for its campus on Eskişehir highway back from the cousin of President’s wife Emine Erdoğan upon instruction, the incident sparked reactions (October 14).