MEDIA MONITORING DATABASE
Release of the ones who attacked Hakan Denizli
RELATED PERSON OR INSTITUTION
Hakan Denizli
CITY
Adana
YEAR OF INTERFERENCE
2021
LAST UPDATED
10/06/2021
IMPUNITY CATEGORY
Impunity for Violence

In the trial of seven people, four arrested, over the armed attack on journalist Hakan Denizli while he was about to get in his car with his daughter and grandchild in Adana’s Seyhan district on May 24, the arrested defendants were released. Denizli was attacked in the wake of the Local Elections on March 31, 2019, amid the wave of attacks that targeted media representatives criticizing the government. The trial will continue at the Criminal Court of First Instance on November 20 (June 10).