MEDIA MONITORING DATABASE
Attack on journalist Murat Uçkaç
RELATED PERSON OR INSTITUTION
Murat Uçkaç
CITY
Aydın
YEAR OF INTERFERENCE
2021
LAST UPDATED
20/01/2021
TYPE OF STATEMENT
Political
MEDIUM
Internet
Internet News Portal
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

Journalists Kıymet Sarıyıldız and Murat Uçkaç, who were taking the pictures and videos of a person arrested for drug dealing in Turkey’s Aegean province of Aydın, were battered by the relatives of the arrested person in front of the courthouse. The journalists went to the security directorate afterwards and filed a criminal complaint (January 20).