MEDIA MONITORING DATABASE
Access block to news in Cumhuriyet’s online edition
RELATED PERSON OR INSTITUTION
Cumhuriyet Newspaper
YEAR OF INTERFERENCE
2020
LAST UPDATED
06/07/2020
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 Criminal Peace Judgeship of Harran, with the decision dated 6 July 2020, issued an access block to a news, entitled “Hükümet Konağına özel acil servis” [Exclusive emergency service for governor’s office] published in Cumhuriyet daily’s online edition October 2018  (6 July).