MEDIA MONITORING DATABASE
Threat against Timur Soykan – due to the news on “child abuse in religious cult”
RELATED PERSON OR INSTITUTION
Timur Soykan
CITY
İstanbul
YEAR OF INTERFERENCE
2022
LAST UPDATED
08/12/2022
TYPE OF STATEMENT
Religious
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
Other

Having reported on the incident where Yusuf Ziya Gümüşel, the founder of Hiranur Foundation affiliated with the İsmailağa religious cult, “married off” his 6-year-old daughter with a religious marriage ceremony and the woman was subjected to sexual abuse, journalist Timur Soykan was targeted on social media. 

“Misvak” magazine targeted him by publishing a comic on its social media account, writing, “Timur Soykan and his mentality, which attack Islam with the intention of repeating the Fadime Şahin indignation, should be arrested” (December 8).