MEDIA MONITORING DATABASE
Verbal attack on Mehmet Tezkan by Devlet Bahçeli
RELATED PERSON OR INSTITUTION
Mehmet Tezkan
CITY
İstanbul
YEAR OF INTERFERENCE
2017
LAST UPDATED
26/04/2019
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

MHP leader Devlet Bahçeli attacked Milliyet newspaper columnist Mehmet Tezkan, who evaluated the results of the referendum in terms of MHP, with words such as “looser, can head, wanton” (18 April 2017).