The Police Raid into Journalist’s Home
Special Operations Team launched a raid into journalist-author Gülşen İşeri’s apartment in İstanbul this morning. The police put a gun against family members’ heads and scattered their belongings everywhere.
İşeri told bianet:
“At 4.30 a.m. our door was beaten heavily. They already broke into other apartments to detain people in the quarter.”
They used force by police shield
“When we opened the door, a police officer came into with weapon and police shield and pushed us. He put a gun against our heads. They shouted us to put our hands up.
They pointed long barreled weapons to us, but they didn’t tell us that they were policemen.
“They have a deficient search warrant”
“They showed us a search warrant, but it was deficient. They told us they were looking for a woman and they launched an operation against Revolutionary People's Liberation Party–Front (DHKP-C)
“They stayed half an hour and searched for everything in the house, even plastic bags. Finally, they took a statement down and they were convinced that there was no crime evidence.
According to İşeri, policemen shouted “We are policemen, can’t you see that?” when they were told the search warrant was deficient.
Gülşen İşeri indicated policemen tried to make her nervous and she would take legal action against it.
A person was detained
Police launched an investigation against 15 dwellings in Sarıyer district of İstanbul this morning and a person named Hakan Adıyaman was detained. An architecture office was raided by police and things were scattered everywhere.
Police raid in Mersin province
Anti-terror branch launched an investigation against a summer camp of Peoples’ Front in Mersin province, in the Mediterranean region of Turkey. Police detained 39 people. There were children amongst them. (AS/BD)
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