MEDIA MONITORING DATABASE
The Presidency’s request for censorship on dokuz8HABER news portal
RELATED PERSON OR INSTITUTION
Dokuz8haber
CITY
İstanbul
YEAR OF INTERFERENCE
2022
LAST UPDATED
08/12/2022
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
Interference to the Content of the Statement

The Human Resources Office of the Presidency requested censorship by sending a disclaimer to dokuz8HABER news portal via its lawyer and notary over a news report where the office is not addressed. Requesting the removal of the news report titled “Software Industrialists’ Association Chair Kamalı: 30 thousand software engineers emigrated in 2021”, the office also demanded that the data of the Turkish Statistical Institute (TurkStat) be taken as the basis for news (December 8).