MEDIA MONITORING DATABASE
Arrest of reporter Ertan Çıta
RELATED PERSON OR INSTITUTION
Ertan Çıta
CITY
Tunceli
LAST UPDATED
05/10/2023
TYPE OF STATEMENT
Political
MEDIUM
Print Media
Newspaper
THE TITLE OF WHOSE RIGHT IS INTERFERED
Journalist
RIGHTS GUARANTEED UNDER THE RIGHT OF FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION
Right to Impart Information and Ideas
TYPE OF INTERFERENCE
Judicial Interference
Public Prosecution Offices
Opening a criminal investigation
THE LEGAL GROUNDS FOR INTERFERENCE
Turkish Penal Code
Art. 220/6

In the Dersim-based operation, Yeni Demokrasi Newspaper reporters Ertan Çıta and Yaprak Kurban were detained on charges of “membership in a terrorist organization”. The people whose reasons for detention could not be learned were taken to Tunceli Police Department. Within the scope of the operation, three people, apart from the journalists, were detained in Dersim and one person was detained in Istanbul (October 3).

Çıta was arrested by the court on 5 October (5 October).