MEDIA MONITORING DATABASE
Targeting of Mark Lowen
RELATED PERSON OR INSTITUTION
Mark Lowen
CITY
İstanbul
YEAR OF INTERFERENCE
2018
LAST UPDATED
25/06/2019
TYPE OF STATEMENT
Political
MEDIUM
Internet
Internet News Portal
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

Yeni Safak newspaper pointed Mark Lowen, the Turkey correspondent for BBC News, as a target due to “discrediting the information and documents about the murder of Jamal Khashoggi that is thematized in the 6 thousand news”. The news included allegations against Lower of being a provocateur and heroizing terrorists in his articles. (18 November 2018).