MEDIA MONITORING DATABASE
Police prevention against journalists covering Boğaziçi University protests – Halk TV reporter Erdinç Yılmaz
RELATED PERSON OR INSTITUTION
Erdinç Yılmaz
CITY
İstanbul
YEAR OF INTERFERENCE
2021
LAST UPDATED
07/10/2021
TYPE OF STATEMENT
Political
MEDIUM
Television
THE TITLE OF WHOSE RIGHT IS INTERFERED
Journalist
RIGHTS GUARANTEED UNDER THE RIGHT OF FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION
Right to Impart Information and Ideas
TYPE OF INTERFERENCE
Third-Party Interference
Physical Interference

Halk TV reporter Erdinç Yılmaz was battered by the police and Artı Gerçek reporter Yağmur Kaya’s press card was seized while they were filming the police intervention against the students’ protests in front of the university on October 7, 2021 against the arrest of two Boğaziçi University students (October 7).