MEDIA MONITORING DATABASE
Attack on DHA reporter Ahmet Atmaca
RELATED PERSON OR INSTITUTION
Ahmet Atmaca
CITY
Gaziantep
YEAR OF INTERFERENCE
2021
LAST UPDATED
10/06/2021
TYPE OF STATEMENT
Political
MEDIUM
Internet
News Agency
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
Third-Party Interference
Physical Interference

Ahmet Atmaca, a reporter for Demirören News Agency (DHA), was attacked when he went to the morgue of the Forensic Medicine Institution to follow up the incident after a person had been stabbed to death in Antep.

The attack reportedly happened while the dead body of the killed person was being delivered (June 10).