MEDIA MONITORING DATABASE
7 ETHA employees taken in custody – Serdal Işık
RELATED PERSON OR INSTITUTION
Serdal Işık
CITY
İstanbul
YEAR OF INTERFERENCE
2019
LAST UPDATED
08/10/2019
TYPE OF STATEMENT
Political
MEDIUM
Print Media
Newspaper
THE TITLE OF WHOSE RIGHT IS INTERFERED
Editor / Editor-In-Chief
RIGHTS GUARANTEED UNDER THE RIGHT OF FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION
Right to Impart Information and Ideas
TYPE OF INTERFERENCE
Judicial Interference
Public Prosecution Offices
Taking into custody

Police raided the Istanbul office of the Etkin news agency (ETHA) on 15 June 2019 in relation to a court decision ordering that “İstanbul Sokakta” (Istanbul on the streets), a recent supplement issued by the weekly newspaper Atılım,be pulled off newsstands. Editors, İsminaz Temel, Deniz Bakır and Serdal Işık, the reporters Havva Cuştan and Ozan Sarı, including Mehmet Acettin and an employee of the Ceylan Publications Gülçin Aykul were taken in custody and they were released on the fourth day of their detention (19 June) with an international travel ban.