Minister seizes copies of a newspaper because he did not like the news
One of the most blatant examples of a bar on publication without a court order under the state of emergency regime was experienced in Kayseri. A local newspaper which ran a headline about a company of which Minister of the Environment Özhaseki is a shareholder saw its print-runs confiscated prior to distribution.
The local newspaper named Kayseri Deniz Postası saw its print-runs confiscated prior to distribution because of its headline, “Scandal ... They buried toxic waste in the countryside. If a minister does this ...” The accompanying report reveals that toxic waste was buried in the countryside and Minister for the Environment and Urbanisation, Mehmet Özhaseki, is a shareholder of the company responsible.
According to the document issued by the public prosecution, company manager Aytekin Aydemir went to the police station and stated that he was the owner of a mine, Kayseri Deniz Postası had run an unfounded and negative report that contained defamatory and false allegations about this mine, he had heard that the said report would appear on 8 December and he had seen the newspaper’s headline on the Press and Advertisement Agency’s official website at about three o’ clock in the morning. Aydemir thus applied for publication of the newspaper to be halted, for it to be confiscated if published, for a bar to be placed on publication of the news, and for the making of all kinds of news, discussion, criticism and similar publications in the print, visual and social media to be prohibited.
Crime-related goods: the newspaper
In response to the application, the statement bearing prosecutor Selim Tan’s signature was issued: “A decision was rendered for the suspects to be apprehended and for a search to be conducted for the purpose of gathering traces, products, proof or evidence of the offence on the grounds that delay is objectionable, and for the crime-related goods, the 8 December 2016 edition of the newspaper named Kayseri Deniz Postası, to be confiscated on finding them.”
As to Minister for the Environment and Urbanisation, Özhaseki, he has commented, “There is certain knowledge that there is absolutely no output containing toxic waste in the said company’s manufacturing process. No toxic waste is ever emitted. This is a plant at which there is one hundred percent recycling. I have a 3.3% share that I inherited from my father. And, in the unlikely event that it has caused pollution with toxic waste, I hereby declare that I will donate my 3.3% share to the CHP.”
Jet speed for a Minister
In the wake of the confiscation decision, CHP MPs Gürsel Tekin, Enis Berberoğlu, Zülfikar İnönü Tümer, Aydın Uslupehlivan and Çetin Arık visited the newspaper. Gürsel Tekin said, “The Minister for the Environment and Urbanisation, who is duty bound to protect the environment, has wrecked the environment. Given that it is impossible to even find a prosecutor or judge at that time, how come a duty prosecutor or judge is available at that time?” For his part, Enis Berberoğlu raised the question, “How did the learned prosecutor come to the opinion at two in the morning that this news consisted of lies and fabrications from start to end?”
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