MEDIA MONITORING DATABASE
Access block to news on CHP Mersin MP Ali Mahir Başarır’s allegations – T24
RELATED PERSON OR INSTITUTION
T24
CITY
İstanbul
YEAR OF INTERFERENCE
2021
LAST UPDATED
10/09/2021
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
Art. 9

The Beykoz Criminal Judgeship of Peace in İstanbul has imposed an access block on the YouTube video of Zeynel Lüle’s program on TELE1 TV, where program’s guest CHP Mersin MP Ali Mahir Başarır asked on December 31, 2020 whether fugitive businessperson Sezgin Baran Kormaz exchanged telephone messages with current member of the Constitutional Court İrfan Fidan, and on the news reports about the issue on the grounds of “violation of personal rights”. The court decision no. 2021/1792 has affected the TELE1 and T24 news websites (September 10).