MEDIA MONITORING DATABASE
Access block to news on allegations about AKP’s Gercüş Mayor Gündüz Günaydın – Cumhuriyet Newspaper
RELATED PERSON OR INSTITUTION
Cumhuriyet Newspaper
CITY
İstanbul
YEAR OF INTERFERENCE
2021
LAST UPDATED
24/09/2021
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 Gercüş Criminal Judgeship of Peace in Batman has imposed an access block on the news alleging that Justice and Development Party (AKP)’s Gercüş Mayor Gündüz Günaydın gave the tender for cobblestones to the son of a fellow prisoner with whom he stood trial together for having allegedly drawn oil illegally from a pipeline in 2002. According to the Freedom of Expression Association, the decision no. 2021/205, which has been given on the grounds of “violation of personal rights”, has affected the websites of İleri Haber, Cumhuriyet and Evrensel newspapers (September 24).