MEDIA MONITORING DATABASE
Police prevention against Diren Yurtsever
RELATED PERSON OR INSTITUTION
Diren Yurtsever
CITY
Ankara
YEAR OF INTERFERENCE
2021
LAST UPDATED
26/04/2021
TYPE OF STATEMENT
Political
MEDIUM
Internet
News Agency
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

Mezopotamya Agency (MA) reporters Diren Yurtsever and Selman Güzelyüz were prevented by the police from following the hearing of the Kobani trial in the capital city of Ankara on April 26, 2021. Moving them away from the prison campus by force, the police inflicted physical violence on the journalists (April 26).