MEDIA MONITORING DATABASE
Access block to Murat Ağırel’s news article on TRT expenditures – Yeniçağ newspaper
RELATED PERSON OR INSTITUTION
Yeniçağ Gazetesi
CITY
İstanbul
YEAR OF INTERFERENCE
2021
LAST UPDATED
26/01/2021
TYPE OF STATEMENT
Political
MEDIUM
Print Media
Newspaper
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
Art. 9/A

According to Engelli Web’s post, the İstanbul Anadolu 6th Criminal Judgeship of Peace, with its decision no. 2021/413 dated January 26, 2021, has imposed an access block on Yeniçağ newspaper columnist Murat Ağırel’s news article “[State channel] TRT’s expenditures omitted from audit” on the grounds of violation of personal rights (January 26).