MEDIA MONITORING DATABASE
Criminal complaint by journalists about police violence
RELATED PERSON OR INSTITUTION
General
CITY
İstanbul
YEAR OF INTERFERENCE
2022
LAST UPDATED
08/09/2022
LEGAL REMEDIES CATEGORIES
MEDIA
National Media

Battered while following the press statement to be made by the relatives of prisoners at Kartal Square in İstanbul on September 3, 2022, Mezopotamya Agency (MA) reporter Doğan Kaynak and Etkin News Agency (ETHA) reporter Elif Bayburt, who was also detained, filed a criminal complaint against the police officers who had intervened against them.

In their complaint, Bayburt and Kaynak requested that the police officers be charged with “misconduct in office, torture, maltreatment, insult and injury” (September 8).