Journalist Hakan Yalçın detained

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Mezopotamya Agency (MA) reporter Hakan Yalçın has been taken into custody in a raid conducted at his house in the early morning hours.

Raiding the house of the journalist in Keçiören in the capital city of Ankara today (November 27), police officers searched the house for a long time and seized the computer of Yalçın during the search.

Taken into custody for allegedly "being a member of the organization", Yalçın has been taken to the Ankara Provincial Security Directorate.

On the other side, Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) Youth Assembly member Nevroz Gülen was also detained in the early morning hours today.

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(HA/SD)