DİYARBAKIR - 21 people, including 20 journalists, have been held in police custody for the last 3 days.

 

In the house raids carried out on the morning of June 8 in Diyarbakır, 21 people, including 20 journalists, were detained. Journalists have been held in Diyarbakır Security Directorate for the last 3 days. Diyarbakir Bar Association President Nahit Eren and two lawyers under the management of the bar met with the detained journalists last night. It has been learned that the journalists have not yet started giving their statements. The confidentiality decision in the file of journalists continues.

 

The names of the detained journalists are as follows: "Dicle Fırat Journalists Association (DFG) Co-chair Serdar Altan, JINNEWS Director Safiye Alagaş, JINNEWS editor Gülşen Koçuk, Mesopotamia Agency (MA) editor Aziz Oruç, Xwebûn Newspaper Editor-in-Chief Mehmet Ali Ertaş, journalists Ömer Çelik, Suat Doğuhan, Ramazan Geciken, Esmer Tunc, Neşe Toprak, Zeynel Abidin Bulut, Mazlum Doğan Güler, Mehmet Şahin, Elif Ungur, İbrahim Koyuncu, Remziye Temel, Mehmet Yalçın, Abdurrahman Öncü, Lezgin Akdeniz, Kadir Bayram and Feynaz Koçuk.