Journalist Berivan Altan investigated over report on attack on Kurdish family

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The Ankara Chief Public Prosecutor's Office summoned Berivan Altan, a reporter for the Mezopotamya Agency (MA) to testify because of her report titled, "Racist attack on Kurdish family in Ankara: Women and children removed from neighborhood."

Altan is under investigation for "provoking the people into hatred and animosity," MA reported.

The prosecutor reportedly asked the journalist how she had received the information in the report and whether she had received instructions from anyone to write the report.

Altan said she had heard of the incident from her news sources and headed to Elmadağ district to report on the events.

"I went to Elmadağ, where the incident happened, and met the family. Then I did the report. There is nothing in the new content that would cause hatred and animosity among the people," said the journalist.

"I reported on such an incident and brought it to the agenda because I thought there was a right violation. While doing this reporting, I did not receive an opinion or suggestion from anyone else to report on it. All the news content belongs to me."

She left the courthouse after giving the statement.

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