MEDIA MONITORING DATABASE
Access block to news on companies prospecting for gold with cyanide in Tokat – Gerçek Gündem
RELATED PERSON OR INSTITUTION
Gerçek Gündem
CITY
İstanbul
YEAR OF INTERFERENCE
2020
LAST UPDATED
18/11/2020
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
Art. 9

The İstanbul 10th Criminal Judgeship of Peace, with its decision dated November 18, 2020 and no. 2020/4822, has imposed an access block on the news regarding the companies prospecting for gold with cyanide in Tokat province and published on Gerçek Gündem news website with the title “Erdoğan’s advisor is apparently at the bottom of cyanide” on the grounds that the news report in question violated personal rights (November 18).