The president was apparently angered by a reference to Mohamed Morsi, Egypt’s deposed president, in Hurriyet that explained that he had been sentenced to death despite having been elected with 52 percent of the vote in 2012. Mr. Erdogan, who also took office after winning 52 percent of the vote, read the headline as a veiled threat that he, too, could end up on death row.

This week, he responded to what he called The Times’s “meddling in Turkey’s affairs” by advising its editors to “know your place.”

In what was widely interpreted as punishment for the headline, the company that owns Hurriyet was banned from bidding for Turkish government contracts on Wednesday.

In a video report on the president’s remarks, which came ahead of crucial parliamentary elections next month, the Turkish daily Bugun connected Mr. Erdogan’s new salvo to an Op-Ed published on Monday by The Times in which two political scientists numbered him among a group of “ ‘soft’ dictators,” like President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia, whose “new brand of authoritarian government” is “better adapted to an era of global media, economic interdependence and information technology.”