4 journalists detained in Van

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Police raided the office of Mezopotamya Agency (MA) and houses of several journalists, including Jinnews reporters, in Turkey's Kurdish majority eastern province of Van in the early morning hours today (October 5).

MA reporters Adnan Bilen and Cemil Uğur, Jinnews reporter Şehriban Abi and Nazan Sala have been detained in the raids. As reported by the MA, cameras and other technical devices and materials of the journalists have been seized by the police, who are still searching the office.

* Photo: MA

He documented dropping from helicopter

Cemil Uğur, one of the detained journalists, revealed it with documents that Servet Turgut and Osman Şiban were dropped from a helicopter after they had been taken into custody by the soldiers launching an operation in the rural parts of Çatak district in Van. Treated in the intensive care unit for days after the incident, Turgut lost his life last week. (TP/SD)