Arrest/detention/charges: Arrest/detention under other laws
The editor of the news website Haberimizvar.net (News for You), Idris Özyol, and one of his reporters, Ebru Küçükaydin, were detained in the middle of the night in the southern province of Antalya and then taken before the local prosecutor’s office because of an article about a coronavirus case in Demre, one of the province’s towns. The article was subsequently deleted from the site. Both journalists were released after interrogation.