MEDIA MONITORING DATABASE
Criminal complaint about police violence by Journalists’ Union of Turkey
RELATED PERSON OR INSTITUTION
Journalists' Union of Turkey
CITY
Ankara
YEAR OF INTERFERENCE
2021
LAST UPDATED
25/02/2021
IMPUNITY CATEGORY
Impunity for Violence
MEDIA
National Media

The Ankara Branch of the Journalists’ Union of Turkey (TGS) applied to the Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office and filed a criminal complaint about “the increasing police intervention against journalists” during various demonstrations in Ankara and “the law enforcement officers’ physical intervention and violence against journalists during news follow up”. 10 incidents of police violence against journalists in the last few months were cited in the petition (February 25).