MEDIA MONITORING DATABASE
Access block to Barış Pehlivan’s article
RELATED PERSON OR INSTITUTION
Barış Pehlivan
CITY
Kilis
YEAR OF INTERFERENCE
2022
LAST UPDATED
14/10/2022
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
Judicial Interference
Criminal Peace Judgeships
Decision to block access
THE LEGAL GROUNDS FOR INTERFERENCE
Turkish Civil Code
Art. 25

On the grounds of violation of personality rights, the Kilis Criminal Judgeship of Peace, with its decision dated October 14, 2022 and numbered 2022/5339, ruled that the news about Cumhuriyet columnist Barış Pehlivan disclosing that lawyer and AKP Gaziantep Merkez Şehitkamil District Organization Chair Hüseyin Çolak, who had shot a person during a road rage, was a public prosecutor in Kilis as well as Pehlivan’s tweet should be deleted (October 14).