MEDIA MONITORING DATABASE
Bilal Erdoğan files a lawsuit against Evrensel Daily
RELATED PERSON OR INSTITUTION
Evrensel Daily
CITY
İstanbul
YEAR OF INTERFERENCE
2019
LAST UPDATED
15/11/2019
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
Filing a Compensation Lawsuit
THE LEGAL GROUNDS FOR INTERFERENCE
Turkish Civil Code
Art. 25

Bilal Erdoğan filed a lawsuit against Evrensel Daily requesting 50 thousand TL, due to an article published 9 March 2014 entitled “Bribery is our ancestor sport”.

On September 15, İstanbul 20 Assize Civil Court rejected claims of the plaintiff, since the case had been filed after the statute of limitation was expired. Thus the case is closed.