Mesopotamia Agency Editor-In-Chief Ferhat Çelik was detained from his home in Şişli, Istanbul, due to the news shared on the agency’s YouTube channel. The journalist was charged with “making propaganda for a terrorist organization” within the scope of an investigation initiated by the Antep Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office and was later released by the Criminal Judicature of Peace with a travel ban against him. Çelik, who left the courthouse, was soon detained once again, this time within the scope of another investigation opened against him at the request of the Ankara Security Directorate’s Anti-Terror Unit. Again, the journalist was charged due to a news broadcast in the Mezopotamya Agency and was released from the Mecidiyeköy District Police Department after testifying.
05.01.2022