MEDIA MONITORING DATABASE
Trial over the attack on Nevşehir Journalists Association
RELATED PERSON OR INSTITUTION
Nevşehir Gazeteciler Cemiyeti
CITY
Nevşehir
YEAR OF INTERFERENCE
2021
LAST UPDATED
01/07/2021
IMPUNITY CATEGORY
Impunity for Violence
MEDIA
National Media

Two defendants who launched an attack with molotov cocktails at the Nevşehir Journalists Association on August 25, 2020 are standing trial at the Nevşehir 1st Criminal Court of First Instance. While the defendants are not arrested, the hearing scheduled for June 18 has been adjourned until October 20 on the grounds that the judge was on leave. In the trial where Bayram Ekici, the Chair of the Nevşehir Journalists Association and the Secretary General of the Journalists Association of Turkey, is a plaintiff and attended the first hearing, the phone records of the defendants’ communication have been requested (July 1).