MEDIA MONITORING DATABASE
Threat against Cumhuriyet newspaper by Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu
RELATED PERSON OR INSTITUTION
Cumhuriyet Newspaper
YEAR OF INTERFERENCE
2021
LAST UPDATED
11/05/2021
TYPE OF STATEMENT
Political
MEDIUM
Print Media
Newspaper
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
Threat or Harassment

Using the photos of Commander of Gendarmerie Forces Arif Çetin with Justice and Development Party (AKP) Elazığ MP Tolga Ağar and crime group leader Selahattin Yılmaz on its front page, Cumhuriyet newspaper was threatened by Minister of Interior Süleyman Soylu, who said, “Turkey is not the old Turkey” (May 11).