MEDIA MONITORING DATABASE
Order for removal of 33 news reports from ABC Gazetesi news website
RELATED PERSON OR INSTITUTION
abcgazete
CITY
İstanbul
YEAR OF INTERFERENCE
2022
LAST UPDATED
23/06/2022
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
Third-Party Interference
Request for Blocking Access
THE LEGAL GROUNDS FOR INTERFERENCE
Law on Regulating Broadcasting (Publication) in the Internet and Fighting Against Crimes Committed by Means of Such Broadcasting

The ABC Gazetesi announced that 33 news reports published on the news website were facing a removal order. The situation was announced to the public in an article penned by journalist Serkut Bozkurt on June 23, 2022. According to the article, the decisions of content removal given by Criminal Judgeships of Peace were delivered to the ABC Gazetesi via the Access Providers’ Union (ESB); the website declared that the news would not be removed no matter what sanctions would follow.

Among the news reports facing a removal order were also the ones concerning the summary of a content published in the Official Gazette with the signature of President Erdoğan, the statement of CHP Chair Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu about Fettah Tamince at the Parliament, the suicide of Enes Kara, a student of Fırat University Medical Faculty, at the religious community dorm where was forced to stay by his family, incidents of sexual harassment targeting women and children, threat and blackmail (June 23).