MEDIA MONITORING DATABASE
Police raid on Hasan Tolga Balcılar’s house
RELATED PERSON OR INSTITUTION
Hasan Tolga Balcılar
CITY
Osmaniye
YEAR OF INTERFERENCE
2021
LAST UPDATED
27/05/2021
TYPE OF STATEMENT
Political
MEDIUM
Internet
Internet News Portal
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

The house of Hasan Tolga Balcılar, a journalist in Osmaniye province, was raided by the police for the third time on May 27, 2021. In his statement, Balcılar said that he had been battered, he had slipped his right shoulder and the images/videos in his spouse’s phone had been deleted. 

Balcılar argued that his house had been raided upon the instruction of Osmaniye Mayor Kadir Kara on the grounds that he had reported on the irregularities at the Osmaniye Municipality (May 27).