MEDIA MONITORING DATABASE
Confinement of journalist Lezgin Tekay
RELATED PERSON OR INSTITUTION
Lezgin Tekay
CITY
Ankara
YEAR OF INTERFERENCE
2021
LAST UPDATED
25/05/2021
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
Other

Lezgin Tekay, a reporter for Mezopotamya Agency (MA), was deforced by a group of people who introduced themselves as the “intelligence” while Tekay, who had just come from Urfa, was getting on the intracity shuttle bus of the Ankara Intercity Bus Terminal (AŞTİ). Having come to Ankara to visit his family, Tekay texted his journalist friends, “I have been detained.” Held for nearly two hours, he was released without being officially detained (May 25).