Arif Kocabıyık detained again 1 day after release

Arif Kocabıyık, known for his street interviews on social media, was detained and arrested last week.

Kocabıyık, who was released yesterday, was detained again today.

Regarding the matter, Kocabıyık’s lawyer Ömer Furkan Dağ stated, “Arif Kocabıyık has been detained again. The prosecutor objected to the FINAL release decision, citing two files for which Arif had already given his statement a month ago and was released by the police. The court that issued the release decision rejected the objection. Upon this, the prosecutor issued a detention order himself.”

ERDOĞAN HAD TARGETED STREET INTERVIEWS

AKP Chairman and President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan had targeted street interviews in his speech at the 10th Anatolian Media Awards Ceremony, where awards were showered upon pro-government media.

Erdoğan had said, “Everyone who picks up a microphone and a camera thinks they are a journalist, and our nation is being openly provoked on the streets. Especially under the name of 'street interviews,' a kind of terror is being unleashed on the streets. So much so that anyone who grabs a microphone finds the audacity to insult the nation.”