MEDIA MONITORING DATABASE
Threat against Can Ataklı
RELATED PERSON OR INSTITUTION
Can Ataklı
YEAR OF INTERFERENCE
2021
LAST UPDATED
19/08/2021
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
Threat or Harassment

İsmail Özdemir, the Vice Chair of the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) responsible for the Press, Publicity and Public Relations, targeted Korkusuz newspaper’s columnist Can Ataklı on social media. Ataklı had recently said that MHP Chair Devlet Bahçeli “should explain why withdrawing from Afghanistan would put Anatolia in danger” (August 19).