Access to SÖZCÜ news on corruption in IMM



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The mayor of the Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality (IMM), Ekrem İmamoğlu, began to open corruption files related to the AKP era.

The first major file of corruption that the new IMM administration presented to the jurisdiction with respect to the previous period was the “advocacy and media work of the investment organizations of the IMM Information Technology Department and its affiliated units.” held on October 30, 2018 by the IMM Information Technology Department. A criminal complaint was filed against 23 names on the subject.

Our first story on the subject was published in the headline of the Sözcü newspaper on December 7, 2020. It then appeared on Sözcü.com.tr.

On December 8, 2020, SÖZCÜ gave a second report on the subject with the headline “No paid jobs at IMM during AKP period.”

THE MINISTER WHO IS APPOINTED

The 4th Criminal Peace Court of Istanbul has imposed a block on access to our news about the corruption investigation.

Two news links on the subject and links on 295 websites that override them were included in the scope of the access restrictions.

The request for an access barrier came from the Minister of Transport and Infrastructure, Adil Karaismailoğlu. Karaismailoğlu was one of the names who filed a criminal complaint in the news in question, such as IMM Deputy Secretary General from the AKP era, tender and expenditure officer.

The reasoning for the decision to block access included the following statements:

“When the Internet outputs in the file and the application request are examined, the applicant acts as Minister of Transport and Infrastructure of the Republic of Turkey, the content of the news subject to the application contains speeches that can be misinterpreted to damage the Reputation and dignity of the applicant, and the expressions, style and expressions used in the content subject to the application as a whole. When evaluated, the balance of expression and essence and form used in the title is broken, the purpose in this sense is exceeded by making unnecessary attributions, these associations are also included in the established jurisprudence of the Constitutional Court regarding the dignity of the applicant by exceeding the limits of freedom of expression and freedom of press information in the ECHR. The area contains content that may constitute ‘violation of rights at first sight’, that is, an attack on the reputation of the applicant, these contents undermine the reputation of the applicant in the eyes of society and other people, and Since the publications The object of the request are speeches that violate the rights of the personality, the legal requirements have been established in accordance with Law No. 5651, and the request of the requesting agent to block access to the content of the request and the decision was made as follows “.



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