MEDIA MONITORING DATABASE
Burhan Ceyhan – Attack by relatives of ordinary suspects
RELATED PERSON OR INSTITUTION
Burhan Ceyhan
CITY
Aydın
YEAR OF INTERFERENCE
2023
LAST UPDATED
30/03/2023
TYPE OF STATEMENT
Political
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

İHA correspondent Burhan Ceyhan was subjected to a physical attack while reporting about drug selling suspects while they were being transfered to the courthosue in Aydın. The relatives of the suspects tried to prevent him from taking pictures and to take his equipment from him.

DHA correspondent Murat Uçkaç, Hedef Newspaper correspondent Abdurrahman Fırat and Manşet Newspaper correspondent Melek Fırat were also subjected to violence together with Uçkaç. Police and gendarme intervened and took three aggressors into custody upon complaint by the journalists  (March 30)