MEDIA MONITORING DATABASE
Censorship on Diken’s “news on censorship” – News on fake court ruling
RELATED PERSON OR INSTITUTION
diken.com.tr
CITY
Kahramanmaraş
YEAR OF INTERFERENCE
2022
LAST UPDATED
25/08/2022
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

An access block has been imposed on the news report where Diken news website announced that an access block was imposed on its news where it revealed that a Diken news report was blocked to access by a fake court ruling. 

An access block was imposed on Diken’s news report “30 villas of Keskin Holding to be sold via judicial sale” dated August 9, 2019 as the Bakırköy 2nd Criminal Judgeship of Peace gave a ruling of content removal in September 2021.

Afterwards, it turned out that the judge and attending court clerk cited in the ruling were actually on duty at another judgeship and that the ruling was fake. Diken filed a criminal complaint about the incident and reported on the issue with a news report the titled “They tried to remove the news by sending a fake ruling.”

The ruling of access block on the related news report handed down by the Gaziantep 2nd Criminal Judgeship of Peace was notified to the Diken officials on May 23, 2022. An access block was imposed on Diken’s news report announcing this access block by the ruling of the Kahramanmaraş Pazarcık Criminal Judgeship of Peace dated August 24, 2022 (August 25).