Arrest/detention/charges: Arrest/detention under fake news laws
Ismet Çiğit, news director of the website Kocaeli Ses, was detained at his home near Istanbul after publishing an article headlined, “Two coronavirus-linked deaths in Derince hospital.” The editor, Güngör Arslan, was also detained and spent the night in the police station due to being charge of publishing the article online. Mesut Akbulut, the editor of the Kocaeli newspaper, was briefly detained two days before that for mentioning another coronavirus case in the city. All journalists were released after interrogation.