MEDIA MONITORING DATABASE
Seizure of Atılım newspaper’s 4 issues
RELATED PERSON OR INSTITUTION
Atılım Newspaper
CITY
İstanbul
YEAR OF INTERFERENCE
2022
LAST UPDATED
28/10/2022
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
Public Prosecution Offices
Other
THE LEGAL GROUNDS FOR INTERFERENCE
Anti-Terror Law
Art. 7/2

The İstanbul Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office imposed a ban on the printing, distribution and sale of four issues of Atılılm newspaper on October 28, 2022 on the grounds that it allegedly “propagandized for a terrorist organization” (as per the Article 7/2 of the Anti-Terror Law / TMK).

As for the reason for taking the newspaper off the shelves, the prosecutor’s office cited the allegations about the use of chemical weapons by the Turkish Armed Forces mentioned in the 82nd (September 30), 83rd (October 7), 84th (October 14) and 85th (October 21) issues of Atılım.