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).