MEDIA MONITORING DATABASE
Detention and battery of Bülent Kılıç
RELATED PERSON OR INSTITUTION
Bülent Kılıç
CITY
İstanbul
YEAR OF INTERFERENCE
2018
LAST UPDATED
08/06/2019
TYPE OF STATEMENT
Political
MEDIUM
Other
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
Judicial Interference
Public Prosecution Offices
Taking into custody

AFP photojournalist Bülent Kılıç was battered and detained at the beginning of the protest held against the detention of workers who have worked in the construction of the third airport in Istanbul on September 15, 2018. Having been handcuffing behind his back on the police bus, Kılıç was detained for two hours at the Iskele Station. He was released after an official report prepared stating that “He was left where he was taken.”