MEDIA MONITORING DATABASE
Detention of ETHA reporter Elif Bayburt
RELATED PERSON OR INSTITUTION
Elif Bayburt
CITY
İstanbul
YEAR OF INTERFERENCE
2022
LAST UPDATED
17/11/2022
TYPE OF STATEMENT
Political
MEDIUM
Internet
News Agency
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

The Kaktüs Young Women’s Association in Kadıköy was raided by special operations police officers on the night of November 17, 2022. Of the ones at the association to organize an event on the occasion of upcoming November 25, Etkin News Agency (ETHA) reporter Elif Bayburt was detained. Taken to the Kadıköy District Security Directorate after the procedures at the hospital, Bayburt, along with 10 other women, was released (November 17).