MEDIA MONITORING DATABASE
Physical assault after football match – Emre Kaplan
RELATED PERSON OR INSTITUTION
Emre Kaplan
CITY
İstanbul
YEAR OF INTERFERENCE
2024
LAST UPDATED
07/08/2025
TYPE OF STATEMENT
Other
MEDIUM
Television
THE TITLE OF WHOSE RIGHT IS INTERFERED
Journalist
RIGHTS GUARANTEED UNDER THE RIGHT OF FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION
Right to Information Act
TYPE OF INTERFERENCE
Third-Party Interference
Physical Interference


28 October 2024
Following the Galatasaray–Beşiktaş football match in Istanbul, A Spor reporter Emre Kaplan was punched outside the stadium and taken to the hospital by ambulance. Sezgin Gülnar, the driver of Beşiktaş Club President Hasan Arat, was detained as the suspect and later arrested. Justice Minister Yılmaz Tunç announced that the Istanbul Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office had launched an investigation into the incident.