Attorney Levent Pişkin in Custody

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Attorney and LGBTI activist Levent Pişkin has been taken into custody in his apartment in İstanbul today (November 14) in an operation.

Attorney Ramazan Demir stated that an investigation into Pişkin was launched in Bursa and thus they expected that he would be delivered to Bursa.  

Pişkin had met Peoples’ Democratic Party arrested co-Chair Selahattin Demirtaş in Edirne F- type Prison on November 5. Takvim daily, Sabah daily, Ulusal Kanal and some other media outlets had claimed that Pişkin would forward Demirtaş’s messages to a magazine in Germany to be used for propaganda.

Who is Levent Pişkin?

Levent Pişkin is an attorney and LGBTI activist. He is also the HPD Istanbul Provincial Execute. He works in the Memory Center and does his Master’s degree at Boğaziçi University Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish History. (ÇT/DG)