Targeting of Fatih Portakal by Yeni Akit

RELATED PERSON OR INSTITUTION

Fatih Portakal

CITY

İstanbul

YEAR OF INTERFERENCE

2017

LAST UPDATED

13/05/2019

TYPE OF STATEMENT

Political

MEDIUM

Television

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

Hours after FOX TV anchorperson Fatih Portakal received death threat in social media, he was targeted by online edition of Yeni Akit newspaper over a piece of news entitled “Fatih Portakal’ın ‘terörist’ aşkı bitmiyor [He keeps loving ‘terrorist'” (19 December 2017).