Court supports Turkish journalists’ association right to reply to criticism
By Emil Weber
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) on 24th October backed the domestic Turkish court for ordering a newspaper in Sinop to publish a reaction from the local journalists’ association.
The ECtHR ruled that there was no violation of the right to freedom of expression.
According to the court’s Second Section, the right to reply is a guarantee of pluralism of information in democratic societies.
Mr. Mustafa Eker was the publisher of the newspaper Bizim Karadeniz in the small Turkish city of Sinop when he, in February 2005, published an editorial criticising the Sinop Association of Journalists for working “in contradiction…
