MEDIA MONITORING DATABASE
Bodyguards of İYİ Party Chair Assault Journalist – Erkan Karaca
RELATED PERSON OR INSTITUTION
Erkan Karaca
CITY
Çorum
YEAR OF INTERFERENCE
2024
LAST UPDATED
07/08/2025
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 Access to Information and Ideas
TYPE OF INTERFERENCE
Third-Party Interference
Physical Interference


16 December 2024
During İYİ Party Chair Müsavat Dervişoğlu’s visit to Çorum, the party’s bodyguards assaulted members of the press. Erkan Karaca, Editor-in-Chief of Leblebi TV, was attacked and injured while trying to report on the event.