MEDIA MONITORING DATABASE
Access block to news on former Trade Minister Ruhsar Pekcan giving tender to her relatives – Sözcü
RELATED PERSON OR INSTITUTION
Sözcü Daily Newspaper
CITY
İstanbul
YEAR OF INTERFERENCE
2022
LAST UPDATED
29/03/2022
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

On the grounds of violation of personality rights, the İstanbul Bakırköy 4th Criminal Judgeship of Peace, with its decision no. 2022/2141 dated March 29, 2022, imposed an access block on Sözcü newspaper’s report on the allegations that a 1.6-million-lira tender was given to the relatives of a senior ministry bureaucrat during the term of office of former Trade Minister Ruhsar Pekcan (March 29).