MEDIA MONITORING DATABASE
Access block to 3 articles in Yeniçağ and BirGün
RELATED PERSON OR INSTITUTION
Yeniçağ Gazetesi
CITY
İstanbul
YEAR OF INTERFERENCE
2022
LAST UPDATED
10/05/2022
TYPE OF STATEMENT
Political
MEDIUM
Print Media
Newspaper
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
Third-Party Interference
Request for Blocking Access
THE LEGAL GROUNDS FOR INTERFERENCE
Turkish Civil Code
Art. 25

Some articles by writer Murat Ağırel’s series titled “Turkey in the grip of drugs” and “Turkey’s Narcos”, from Yeniçağ newspaper, and an article by BirGün newspaper’s columnist Timur Soykan, titled “Mersin deadlock” were blocked to access by the Decision of Mersin 3rd Criminal Judgeship of Peace, dated May 10, 2022 on the grounds of “violation of personal rights” (May 10).