Journalist Zehra Doğan, HDP MP Advisor Kavak in Custody

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JİNHA editor tracking news in Turkey’s southeastern Mardin’s Nusaybin, and Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) Mardin MP Ali Atalan’s advisor Mazlum Kavak are in custody.

Doğan and Kavak were detained in a café they were sitting in Yenişehir neighborhood of Mardin province, JİNHA reported. Doğan and Kavak were told there was testimony against them.

Following the health control in Mardin State Hospital, Doğan and Kavlak were first taken to Mardin Security Directorate and then to Nusaybin Security Directorate.

Doğan and Kavak are expected to be brought to prosecution office today (July 22).

About Zehra Doğan

Born in 1989, Doğan graduated from University of Dicle, Department of Painting Teaching. She has been working at JİHNA since 2012 when the agency was founded. Doğan working as reporter and editor at the JİNHA, was awarded Metin Göktepe Journalism Prize.

Doğan carrying out her duty in the regions as of the beginning of conflict and curfews on July 24, 2015, was working in Nusaybin for the past five months. (EA/TK)