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A lawsuit against Çiğdem Toker, the columnist for daily Cumhuriyet, by Agrobay Company seeking compensation
RELATED PERSON OR INSTITUTION
Çiğdem Toker
CITY
Giresun
YEAR OF INTERFERENCE
2017
LAST UPDATED
06/07/2020
TYPE OF STATEMENT
Political
MEDIUM
Print Media
Newspaper
THE TITLE OF WHOSE RIGHT IS INTERFERED
Journalist
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

On December 27, 2017, Agrobay Company in Giresun filed a compensation lawsuit of 1 million 500 thousand against Çiğdem Toker due to her article entitled “Rusya’ya domatesler Bayburt’tan [Tomatotes sent to Russia are from Bayburt]” published on 15 November 2017. At the second hearing of the case, on December 6, 2018, the lawsuit was rejected.

A compensation case against journalist Çiğdem Toker over a newspaper column published in February 2017, was rejected by the 25th Civil Chamber of the Ankara Regional Court of Justice (6 July).