MEDIA MONITORING DATABASE
Access block to Barış Terkoğlu’s column
RELATED PERSON OR INSTITUTION
Barış Terkoğlu
CITY
Sivas
YEAR OF INTERFERENCE
2022
LAST UPDATED
08/07/2022
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

With the decision of the Şarkışla Criminal Judgeship of Peace dated July 8, 2022 and numbered 2022/333 and on the grounds of violating personality rights, an access block has been imposed on the article of journalist Barış Terkoğlu, a columnist for daily Cumhuriyet, where he alleged that Muhsin Kara, who ranked first in the world call to prayer recital competition and has a picture taken with President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, was being investigated on FETÖ-related charges (July 8).