Turkey’s Ministry of Youth and Sports has filed a compensation case against the Anayurt newspaper and its reporter Tamer Arda Erşin.
The ministry claims that an interview published in the newspaper under Erşin’s byline violated the institution’s “personality rights” by damaging the public image of the ministry and its employees, and misled public opinion.
The ministry is seeking a total of TL 10,000 in damages from the daily’s responsible managing editor Ferda Bucak, reporter Erşin, head of the Ankara branch of the Turkish Chamber of Architects Tezcan Karakuş Candan, and Belde Basın Yayın Inc., the company that publishes the newspaper.
