Turkey - Mounting police violence against journalists covering “Occupy Gezi”

Reporters without borders

Reporters Without Borders strongly condemns the continuing arbitrary arrests and escalating violence against journalists covering anti-government demonstrations in Turkey. At least eight journalists were briefly arrested yesterday in Istanbul. Violence spread after the police retook Istanbul's Gezi Park on the evening of 15 June. Media personnel were kept at a distance from the police operation and access to Taksim Square was denied to all journalists who could not produce a press card. (...)

© Reporters sans frontières - lundi 17 juin 2013