ISTANBUL - Following the end of Newroz, in which hundreds of thousands attended, in Yenikapı Square, the police attacked the crowd and detained approximately 200 people, including disabled children and lawyers.
The police, who intervened in the dispersal crowd in Istanbul Yenikapı Square, after the end of Newroz, in which hundreds of thousands attended with the slogan "Everywhere is Newroz, everytime is freedom" and "Freedom with the fire of Newroz'', detained approximately 200 people. There was a massive reaction to the police, who wanted to detain a group on the grounds that they shouted slogans such as "Long live Apo'', "There is no life without Öcalan" and "Long live resistance of prisoners''. Thereupon, the police attacked the crowd and detained hundreds of people with torture.
DISABLED CHILD DETENTION
It was learned that a disabled child and lawyers were among those detained. It was stated that the detainees were taken to the Istanbul Police Department and the Fatih District Police Department Juvenile Bureau on Vatan Street.