MEDIA MONITORING DATABASE
The Constitutional Court Decision – The access block on news article in BirGün
RELATED PERSON OR INSTITUTION
BirGün
CITY
İstanbul
YEAR OF INTERFERENCE
2015
LAST UPDATED
11/11/2019
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
Interferences by the Executive Power
BTK (The Information and Communication Technologies Authority)
Decision to block access
THE LEGAL GROUNDS FOR INTERFERENCE
Law on Regulating Broadcasting (Publication) in the Internet and Fighting Against Crimes Committed by Means of Such Broadcasting
Art. 8/A

The Constitutional Court has pronounced its decision on a broadcast ban previously imposed on news in BirGün daily in 2015 that it has violated  “freedom of the press” and “freedom of the expression”.

However, the court has not lifted the ban on the news article concerning Hacı Lokman Birlik who has killed by the military operation in Şırnak in 2015 on the grounds of “certainty of the decision”

ADDITIONAL DOCUMENTS
Birgün İletişim ve Yayıncılık Ticaret A.Ş. [GK], B. No: 2015/18936, 22/5/2019
AYM Kararı 22/05/2019