MEDIA MONITORING DATABASE
Attack on journalist Hasan Sivri
RELATED PERSON OR INSTITUTION
Hasan Sivri
CITY
İstanbul
YEAR OF INTERFERENCE
2018
LAST UPDATED
08/05/2019
TYPE OF STATEMENT
Political
MEDIUM
Television
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
Threat or Harassment

Hasan Sivri, who participated in the program “Discussion Program” on France24 TV, was attacked by Cahit Tuz, the Public Relations and Media Adviser of Prime Minister, who was in the next studio, at the end of the program. According to Sivri, his freedom of speech was violated,  and Tuz has thrown him an object and threatened him.