MEDIA MONITORING DATABASE
Decision of non-prosecution for the attack on Erhan Akbaş
RELATED PERSON OR INSTITUTION
Erhan Akbaş
CITY
Van
YEAR OF INTERFERENCE
2021
LAST UPDATED
04/06/2021
IMPUNITY CATEGORY
Non-prosecution for the Investigation
MEDIA
National Media

Non-prosecution for the investigation launched by Yılmaz and Akbaş: Journalists İdris Yılmaz and Erhan Akbaş filed a criminal complaint at the Erciş Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office over the incident where they were attacked by the contractor whom they had met for news and his relatives in Erciş district in Turkey’s Van province on October 14, 2017. A decision of non-prosecution was given for their criminal complaint three years later. The prosecutor’s office indicated that there were no impartial witnesses of the incident and gave a decision of non-prosecution on the grounds that “there was no ground for prosecution” (June 4).