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Police violence against eight journalists covering the Suruç Massacre commemoration – Fatoş Erdoğan
RELATED PERSON OR INSTITUTION
Fatoş Erdoğan
CITY
İstanbul
YEAR OF INTERFERENCE
2021
LAST UPDATED
20/07/2021
TYPE OF STATEMENT
Political
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

Covering the commemoration ceremony held in İstanbul in memory of the 33 young people who lost their lives in a suicide bomb attack launched by ISIS in Şanlıurfa’s Suruç on July 20, 2015, European Pressphoto Agency (EPA) reporter Erdem Şahin, Dokuz Sekiz news website reporter Fatoş Erdoğan, Agence France-Presse (AFP) photojournalist Bülent Kılıç, Cumhuriyet Newspaper reporter Kübra Köklü, freelance reporters Yasin Akgül, Emre Orman, Ozan Acıdere and Zeynep Kuray were injured by the shields and rubber bullets of the police (July 20).