MEDIA MONITORING DATABASE
Threat against the Cumhuriyet Newspaper and columnist Işık Kansu
RELATED PERSON OR INSTITUTION
Cumhuriyet Newspaper
YEAR OF INTERFERENCE
2019
LAST UPDATED
22/12/2019
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

Akit TV announcer Fatih Dağıstanlı, who did not like the headline of the Cumhuriyet newspaper, threatened the newspaper and its columnist Işık Kansu in the live broadcast, stating that “If the Cumhuriyet commenced a war against the sharia, let’s go together and throw a grenade in front of the Cumhuriyet newspaper” (December 22).