MEDIA MONITORING DATABASE
Prevention of journalists from following up the incidents in Ankara’s Altındağ – Büşra Taşkıran
RELATED PERSON OR INSTITUTION
Büşra Taşkıran
CITY
Ankara
YEAR OF INTERFERENCE
2021
LAST UPDATED
11/08/2021
TYPE OF STATEMENT
Political
MEDIUM
Other
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

Journalists Seda Taşkın and Büşra Taşkıran were prevented from following up the attempted attacks against the houses and workplaces of Syrian and Afghan migrants in Altındağ district in Ankara on August 11, 2021. In her message on Twitter, Taşkın indicated that while she and Taşkıran were following up the incidents, they were made to get in a vehicle by the police and taken away from the scene of the incident (August 11).