Bakırköy Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office started an investigation against the FOX TV news on Mersin Public Hospital due to ‘denigrating government institutions,’ ‘insult’ and ‘slander.’
FOX TV news anchor Fatih Portakal and managing director İbrahim Onur Kumbaracıbaşı are suspects in the investigation started following the complaint of the Ministry of Health. Bakırköy 1st Criminal Judicature of Peace issued a disclaimer text to be broadcasted on FOX TV screens related to the news.
The news reported that the public hospital in Mersin is located outside the city and the patients have to change three transportation vehicles to reach the hospital. Anchoring the news, Portakal claimed that public hospitals in cities are too large that patients have difficulty finding their way inside the hospitals; indicating a patient he invited on the broadcast had to walk a long way with crutches just to get an MRI scan.
06.05.2018
t24.com.tr