MEDIA MONITORING DATABASE
Administrative fine on Halk TV by RTÜK
RELATED PERSON OR INSTITUTION
Halk TV
YEAR OF INTERFERENCE
2021
LAST UPDATED
29/12/2021
TYPE OF STATEMENT
Political
MEDIUM
Television
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
Interferences by the Executive Power
The Supreme Board of Radio and Television (RTUK)
Administrative fine
THE LEGAL GROUNDS FOR INTERFERENCE
The Law on the Establishment of Radio and Television Enterprises and Their Media Services

The Radio and Television Supreme Council (RTÜK) has imposed an administrative fine on Halk TV on the grounds that former Minister of Treasury and Finance Berat Albayrak was degraded when Barış Terkoğlu read out excerpts from the KİPTAŞ report indicating that Nun Foundation, of which Albayrak was a co-founder, rented a forest land unduly (December 29).