Upon the criminal complaint of Red Crescent Chair Kerem Kınık over the news report titled “BirGün has accessed the documents of fines imposed on the Red Crescent Chair and Director General” and published on the website on October 4, 2020 and on the newspaper on October 6, 2020, the İstanbul Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office has launched an investigation against BirGün newspaper’s editorial coordinators İbrahim Varlı and Yaşar Aydın and reporter İsmail Arı on charge of “obtaining and disclosing personal information in an unlawful manner” (August 13).