Owner of local Halk Daily and Pusula Daily in Bartın, Mustafa Ahmet Oktay and Managing Editor Eren Sarıkaya were detained. The journalists were charged with “public incitement towards panic” due to the news published in the newspaper with the headline, “A practitioner diagnosed Corona positive in Bartın.” However, the Governorate confirmed the case as the journalists were under detainment. The journalists were kept under detainment for five hours and were later sent to the Prosecutor’s Office. They were released.
20.03.2020
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