MEDIA MONITORING DATABASE
Evrensel ordered to issue a retraction
RELATED PERSON OR INSTITUTION
Evrensel Daily
CITY
Aydın
YEAR OF INTERFERENCE
2023
LAST UPDATED
04/01/2023
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
Judicial Interference
Criminal Peace Judgeships
Court order to retract an article

The Aydın Criminal Judgeship of Peace treated the retraction requested by Aydın Köşk Sub-governor and published by Evrensel as an announcement and ruled that the text should be published on “two news websites and two newspapers whose circulation was over a hundred thousand.” 

Devrim Avcı, the lawyer of the newspaper, underlined that the decision was both unjust and openly against the law and said, “The Press Law has no such provision. This is openly against the law” (January 4).