MEDIA MONITORING DATABASE
Fire watch: Prevention of BirGün reporter Sarya Toprak from video recording
RELATED PERSON OR INSTITUTION
Sarya Toprak
CITY
Muğla
YEAR OF INTERFERENCE
2021
LAST UPDATED
08/08/2021
TYPE OF STATEMENT
Political
MEDIUM
Print Media
Newspaper
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
Other

Following an event where Minister of Agriculture and Forestry Murat Kurum met the local people affected by fires in the Bayır village in Muğla’s Marmaris, BirGün Reporter Sarya Toprak was prevented by the police from video recording. The police told Toprak to “close her camera” (August 8).