Police Operation with Helicopter into Grup Yorum Band

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Anti-Terror Bureau of İstanbul Security Directorate teams have launched an operation into İdil Cultural Center.

Properties and instruments were damaged during the police search in the cultural center in which Grup Yorum band carries out its musical works.

The band declared that Sultan Gökçek, Özgür Gültekin, Fırat Kıl, Dilan Poyraz, Dilan Ekin, Musa Kurt, Umut Şener, Bergün Varan and Alişan Gül who were in the center were taken into custody.

The images following the raid were shared on the social media account of the cultural center:

Grup Yorum: They vandalized our instruments

In the statement concerning the raid, Grup Yorum recalled that the center was raided six months ago too:

“İdil Cultural Center in which we carry out our works was raided by police six months ago ‘to find criminal and offensive weapon’. Not being able to find an ‘offensive weapon’, the police had seized a hammer.

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“All Grup Yorum members and construction workers were detained in that raid as well. The Seven musicians and one construction worker detained were then arrested and released after 3.5 months.

“And today, they broke doors and windows of our cultural center. They again detained everyone they encountered, again came to find an ‘offensive weapon’, vandalized our properties and instruments”.

The detainees were taken to İstanbul Security Directorate. (AS/TK)