Journalist Ayşe Kara detained
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- 09:25 27/6/2020
Journalist Ayşe Kara was detained as part of an investigation into the DTK.
Journalist Ayşe Kara was detained as part of an investigation into the DTK.
Turkey’s death toll from the novel coronavirus rose to 5,065, as it reported 19 new fatalities, Health Ministry data showed on June 26. According to test results, the total number of COVID-19 cases nationwide reached 194,511 with 1,396 new infections.
Following the search that continued into the noon, the DTK office was sealed on the instruction of Diyarbakır Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office.
Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) Party Assembly member Ercan Oğuz has been taken into custody in Kızıltepe district of Mardin.
Arrests are increasing in the scope of the investigation launched by Diyarbakır Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office against the civil society organization DTK (Democratic Society Congress).
The families and relatives of the fallen in the Euphrates region organized a protest in front of the Russian military base in the village of Ezzaah, west of Kobani, to denounce the massacres of Turkey in the region against civilians.
Two journalists who were released from prison after the first hearing of the case of reporting an intelligence officer's death in Libya have spoken to the Mesopotamia Agency (MA) about the trial and their imprisonment. Both journalists told that they will continue writing no matter whatr.
42 of the 64 people whose arrest warrants were issued within the scope of the investigation opened on the basis of the information obtained during a raid on DTK in 2018 were taken into custody.
The families of PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan and other prisoners in İmralı applied to Bursa Chief Public Prosecutor's Office to visit their imprisoned family members.
Numerous fighter jets took off one after another in Diyarbakır.
Mardin Bar President İsmail Elik, one of the bar presidents who joined the March for Defense, stated that the defense is trying to be silenced and taken under control, said that they will take different actions if the amendment is not abandoned.
DTK Co-chair Leyla Guven, reacting to the raid on their building, said they will not bow.
Kurdish journalist Özgür Paksoy has been sentenced to a suspended prison term of almost one year for “insulting the president”. A caricature of the Brazilian cartoonist Carlos Latuff, which shows the slain lawyer Tahir Elçi, was cited as evidence.
Political prisoners Özgür Karakaya and Didem Akman, who have been on a death fast for a fair trial and against the conditions of detention, were taken to hospital due to the deterioration of their condition.
No damage has been reported after the earthquake, the Interior Minister has stated.