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Detention of Tele 1 TV Foreign News Editor Çağlar Tekin
RELATED PERSON OR INSTITUTION
Çağlar Tekin
CITY
İstanbul
YEAR OF INTERFERENCE
2020
LAST UPDATED
10/11/2020
TYPE OF STATEMENT
Political
MEDIUM
Television
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

Tele 1 TV foreign news editor Çağlar Tekin was taken into custody at the courthouse where he went for a hearing on November 10, 2020. On his Twitter account, Tekin said that he was detained over a news report which had been first published, then removed by the Anadolu Agency (AA) regarding the use of Turkish Armed Forces (TAF) vehicles by ISIS militants in Syria. Tekin was released from detention on the same day after giving his statement (November 10).