MEDIA MONITORING DATABASE
The threat against the Fox TV anchorperson Fatih Portakal
RELATED PERSON OR INSTITUTION
Fatih Portakal
CITY
İstanbul
YEAR OF INTERFERENCE
2018
LAST UPDATED
20/11/2019
TYPE OF STATEMENT
Political
MEDIUM
Television
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
Threat or Harassment

Wearing red waistcoats, members of the “Osmanlı Ocakları” left a black wreath in front of FOX TV building in Zeytinburnu, Istanbul. The founding chair of the “Osmanlı Ocakları”, Kadir Canpolat threatened Polat by saying “at least 52% of the population [referring the pro-Erdoğan people] is awaiting their turn in gritting their teeth.”