MEDIA MONITORING DATABASE
Cem Küçük targeted Hande Fırat due to her article “The headquarter is disturbed”
RELATED PERSON OR INSTITUTION
Hande Fırat
YEAR OF INTERFERENCE
2017
LAST UPDATED
19/04/2019
TYPE OF STATEMENT
Political
MEDIUM
Print Media
Newspaper
THE TITLE OF WHOSE RIGHT IS INTERFERED
Journalist
RIGHTS GUARANTEED UNDER THE RIGHT OF FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION
Right to Impart Information and Ideas
TYPE OF INTERFERENCE
Third-Party Interference
Threat or Harassment

Government supporter journalist Cem Küçük used the word “dog” for Hürriyet Newspaper Ankara representative Hande Fırat in relation to her article called “The military headquarter is disturbed” and threatened Aydın Doğan with imprisonment. “This is a disgrace. Hande Fırat, you used all your credits you had gained on the night of 15 July coup attempt. Turns out your attitude against coup is fake. You will pay for this heading. What Hürriyet did is shameful, it is supporting the coup. The fight of the people will proceed until the last coup supporter in the military, in the media is arrested.

Hilal Kaplan, the columnist of Sabah Newspaper stated that, “Every person should know their place. The president and the people of this country saved you from being “FETÖ Military Forces”. I wish you were disturbed of the traitors before headscarfs. You were being used for the appointment of FETÖ members to military quarters because you were hang up on chasing people with headscarfs. Such a shame, it is the same mentality today. (25 February 2017)