MEDIA MONITORING DATABASE
Lawsuit against Gençağa Karafazlı requesting compensation by AKP Rize Provincial Council Chairperson İbrahim Türüt
RELATED PERSON OR INSTITUTION
Gençağa Karafazlı
CITY
Rize
YEAR OF INTERFERENCE
2020
LAST UPDATED
31/08/2020
TYPE OF STATEMENT
Political
MEDIUM
Print Media
Newspaper
THE TITLE OF WHOSE RIGHT IS INTERFERED
The Owner (Person) of the Media Outlet
RIGHTS GUARANTEED UNDER THE RIGHT OF FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION
Right to Impart Information and Ideas
TYPE OF INTERFERENCE
Third-Party Interference
Filing a Compensation Lawsuit
THE LEGAL GROUNDS FOR INTERFERENCE
Turkish Civil Code
Art. 25

A compensation lawsuit of 50 thousand TL was filed by the AKP Rize Provincial Council Chairperson İbrahim Türüt against the head of Progressive Journalists’ Association of Rize, the grant holder of Nabız newspaper and the correspondent of Artı Gerçek webportal, Gençağa Karafazlı with the allegation of “violating their personal rights” on the grounds that Karafazlı has mentioned the name of Türüt’s wife, Ennur Türüt in relation to “FETÖ” case in his article (31 August).