MEDIA MONITORING DATABASE
BİK cuts public ads of BirGün newspaper
RELATED PERSON OR INSTITUTION
BirGün
YEAR OF INTERFERENCE
2021
LAST UPDATED
11/03/2021
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
Interferences by the Executive Power
The Press Advertising Authority
Advertising ban

A complaint was filed to the Press Advertising Agency (BİK) about a news report published by daily BirGün on January 17. The news report indicated that Abdulaziz Velioğlu, the Eastern and Southeastern General Coordinator and High Advisory Council member of the Wushu Federation of Turkey, served time in prison on Hezbollah-related charges. The BİK cut the public ads of BirGün newspaper for two days over this news report titled “Wushu Federation’s official Velioğlu served time in prison on Hezbollah: The sports organization of reactionarism” (March 11).