MEDIA MONITORING DATABASE
Attack on journalist Yakup Demir
RELATED PERSON OR INSTITUTION
Yakup Demir
CITY
Diyarbakır
YEAR OF INTERFERENCE
2022
LAST UPDATED
06/07/2022
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

Yakup Demir, a reporter for Mesopotamia Agency (MA), was physically attacked by Fevziye Karaer, a lawyer registered in the Gaziantep Bar Association, while he was covering the tension between the shopkeepers and police officers during the enforcement action in Diyarbakır’s Sur district on July 6, 2022.

Demir got his eyebrow cut as a result of Karaer’s attack. Saved from Karaer’s attack thanks to the intervention of the police and the people in the vicinity, Demir went to the Selahattin Eyyubi Hospital and received a medical report documenting that he had been battered. Having received the report, Demir filed a criminal complaint against Karaer (July 6).