MEDIA MONITORING DATABASE
Detention of Journalists Monitoring Migrant Crossings – Kadir Cesur and Ruşen Takva
RELATED PERSON OR INSTITUTION
Kadir Cesur
CITY
Van
YEAR OF INTERFERENCE
2024
LAST UPDATED
01/08/2025
TYPE OF STATEMENT
Political
MEDIUM
Internet
Internet News Portal
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
Interferences by the Executive Power
Executive and Administration
Interference of police forces
THE LEGAL GROUNDS FOR INTERFERENCE
Other Laws

July 29 – 2024

Journalists Kadir Cesur and Ruşen Takva were detained while covering migrant crossings in Van.

They were taken to a border station and held for several hours on the grounds that they had entered a “restricted military zone.”

Their cameras were seized based on a prosecutor’s order, and a seizure report was issued. The journalists were later released.