MEDIA MONITORING DATABASE
Physical attack on İHA reporter Ahmet Demir
RELATED PERSON OR INSTITUTION
Ahmet Demir
YEAR OF INTERFERENCE
2021
LAST UPDATED
19/12/2021
TYPE OF STATEMENT
Political
MEDIUM
Television
THE TITLE OF WHOSE RIGHT IS INTERFERED
Journalist
TYPE OF INTERFERENCE
Third-Party Interference
Physical Interference

During Habertürk TV broadcast, Muharrem Sarıkaya, the Ankara representative of Habertürk, slapped İhlas News Agency (İHA) Gaziantep reporter Ahmet Demir in the face while interviewing Fatma Şahin, the Metropolitan Mayor of Gaziantep from the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) (December 19).