MEDIA MONITORING DATABASE
Detention of Meral Danyıldız
RELATED PERSON OR INSTITUTION
Meral Danyıldız
CITY
İstanbul
YEAR OF INTERFERENCE
2022
LAST UPDATED
14/10/2022
TYPE OF STATEMENT
Political
MEDIUM
Television
THE TITLE OF WHOSE RIGHT IS INTERFERED
Journalist
RIGHTS GUARANTEED UNDER THE RIGHT OF FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION
Right to Access to Information and Ideas
TYPE OF INTERFERENCE
Judicial Interference
Public Prosecution Offices
Taking into custody

Following the incidents that erupted between the police and the residents of the Tozkoparan Neighborhood during the demolition as part of an “urban transformation” project on October 14, 2022, journalist Meral Danyıldız was detained. Taken to the police vehicle after she filmed the moment when the police came to a house for demolition, Danyıldız had her body searched by the police; she was later released by the police who said, “We have been instructed to release her” (October 14).