MEDIA MONITORING DATABASE
BİK cuts public ads of Sözcü Newspaper for 4 days
RELATED PERSON OR INSTITUTION
Sözcü Daily Newspaper
YEAR OF INTERFERENCE
2021
LAST UPDATED
28/09/2021
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

The Press Advertisement Institution (BİK) fined the Sözcü Newspaper by cutting its public ads for four days over the two articles of columnist Saygı Öztürk dated June 17 and 18, 2020, where he mentioned how AKP Trabzon MP Bahar Ayvazoğlu’s spouse Ali Ayvazoğlu and former assistant Emine Altuntaş rose in public institutions. 

Since 2019, the public ads of Sözcü have been cut for 23 days in total (September 28).