Mezopotamya Agency (MA) reporters Muhammet Enes Sezgin and Mahmut Altuntaş were taken into custody while they were covering the demonstration at İstiklal Avenue in protest against the Kadıköy Sub-Governor’s Office’s ban on the “Berbang” concert to be held by the Mesopotamia Cultural Center (MKM) on October 16, 2021. With their statements taken at the Beyoğlu District Security Directorate, the journalists were released in the same evening (October 16).
A decision of non-prosecution was given in the investigation launched by the İstanbul Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office against the journalists on charge of “violating the Law on Meetings and Demonstrations” (January 10).