Access blocked to Speak Up Platform’s story about access blocking

This week an access ban was imposed on a news story on Speak Up Platform’s web page titled “Access to the article stating that the Ministry of Health detected COVID-19 in Turkey in February”


On October 8, 2020, a news article on Speak Up Platform’s web page announced that access was blocked to an international journal article concerning a study which also included the Ministry of Health where the study found that a hospital in Tarsus, Mersin had detected COVID-19 positive patients and had implemented a treatment protocol in February that year.

Access to this article on our website was blocked with the decision of Ankara 2nd Criminal Judgeship of Peace on 02.06.2023 (no. 2023/6783) on grounds of “violation of personal rights” with an order to remove the content.