Ten journalists among detainees after massive crackdown across Turkey
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Dozens of homes and businesses have been raided by police in Turkey's Diyarbakir province, as part of an investigation that has led to the detention of 126 people. Ten of the detainees have been learned to be journalists.
The detentions come just 19 days before the country's presidential and parliamentary elections, which are scheduled for May 143.
According to the state-run Anadolu Agency (AA), those detained are suspected of membership in an "armed terrorist organization."
The detained journalists include Abdurrahman Gök, editor of the Mezopotamya News Agency (MA), MA reporters Ahmet Kanbal and Mehmet Şah Oruç, Osman Akın, editor-in-chief of the Yeni Yaşam newspaper, Kadri Esen, owner of the Kurdish-language Xwebûn newspaper, and Beritan Canözer and Mehmet Yalçın, reporters for JINNEWS. Mikail Barut, Salih Keleş, and Remzi Akkaya were also among those detained.
Among the detainees are several politicians affiliated with the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP), members of the Freedom for Lawyers Association (ÖHD), and artists. (TY/VK)
Journalist MP candidates react to colleagues being arrested in Diyarbakır
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DİYARBAKIR CENTERED POLICE OPERATION:
No Kurdish interpreters, therefore statements in Kurdish not yet taken in the massive crackdown
International reactions to mass raids targeting Kurdish groups
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Pre-election crackdown on Kurdish groups draws condemnation
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Journalist MP candidates react to colleagues being arrested in Diyarbakır
Court arrests four Kurdish journalists after massive raids
DİYARBAKIR CENTERED POLICE OPERATION:
No Kurdish interpreters, therefore statements in Kurdish not yet taken in the massive crackdown
International reactions to mass raids targeting Kurdish groups
Demirtaş: 'What may have Erdoğan asked for in İmralı island, sending there a delegation?'
Pre-election crackdown on Kurdish groups draws condemnation