MEDIA MONITORING DATABASE
Police intervention against reporter Zişan Kürüm
RELATED PERSON OR INSTITUTION
Zişan Kürüm
CITY
Ankara
YEAR OF INTERFERENCE
2022
LAST UPDATED
02/10/2022
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
Interferences by the Executive Power
Executive and Administration
Interference of police forces

Upon the call of the Ankara Women’s Platform after the death of Mahsa Amini, who had been killed by “morality police” in Iran, women wanted to make a statement for the press in the capital city of Ankara on October 2, 2022. Police officers intervened against the press statement, prevented journalists from filming the incident and the riot police moved journalists away from the area. In the meantime, Solfasol TV reporter Zişan Kürüm was battered by police officers (October 2).