MEDIA MONITORING DATABASE
Blocking access to the news article dated March 1, 2018 on the web-site of daily Cumhuriyet
RELATED PERSON OR INSTITUTION
Cumhuriyet Newspaper
YEAR OF INTERFERENCE
2018
LAST UPDATED
07/12/2019
TYPE OF STATEMENT
Political
MEDIUM
Internet
Internet News Portal
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
Judicial Interference
Criminal Peace Judgeships
Decision to block access
THE LEGAL GROUNDS FOR INTERFERENCE
Law on Regulating Broadcasting (Publication) in the Internet and Fighting Against Crimes Committed by Means of Such Broadcasting
Art. 8/A

The news article, dated March 1, 2018, published in the online version of daily Cumhuriyet was blocked on May 14, 2018. The title of the article was “The ‘tippered’ obstacle by gendarme against those protesting against the massacre of 40 thousand trees to build a summer-palace for Erdoğan”