MEDIA MONITORING DATABASE
Injury of AA reporter Sarp Özer in Afrin
RELATED PERSON OR INSTITUTION
Sarp Özer
YEAR OF INTERFERENCE
2018
LAST UPDATED
08/04/2019
TYPE OF STATEMENT
Political
MEDIUM
Internet
News Agency
THE TITLE OF WHOSE RIGHT IS INTERFERED
Journalist
TYPE OF INTERFERENCE
Third-Party Interference
Physical Interference

Sarp Özer, senior reporter of Anadolu Agency (AA), was wounded while following the “Operation of the Olive Branch” conducted by the Turkish Armed Forces in cooperation with the Free Syrian Army in the Afrin region of Syria (2 February 2018).

According to AA, Ozer’s hand and leg were hit by shrapnel consequent to the rocket and mortar thrown into the area.

After the first medical treatment he was transferred to a hospital.