More journalists detained by Turkey after covering antigenmental demonstrations

Istanbul – Friday, two journalists were detained in Dawn Raids in Istanbul in the context of a repression against media workers covering The biggest protests in Turkes in more than a decadereported their outlets.

Elif Bayburt, who works for the press agency Etkin, and Nisa Suda Demirel, of the Evresel news website, were the last people to be arrested early in the morning who targeted political activists and trade unionists as well as journalists.

Our journalist, Nisa SUDEMIREL, was detained by the police who came to her house around 6 am this morning, Evresel said in a statement. Demirel, who followed the demonstrations (Istanbul of the Town Hall) and the boycotts of the universities, was taken to the branch of the Police Services of Istanbul.

The demonstrations started last week after Arrest of the opposition of Istanbuls mayor Ekrem ImamogluA key rival of President Rerep Tayip Erdogan. Imagmoglu has been imprisoned while waiting for the corruption trial Many consider a political motivation. The government insists that the judiciary is independent and exempt from political interference.

Journalists Without Borders condemned the arrests of journalists. There is no end to the detention of journalists, said its representative in Türkiye Erol Onderoglu.

The Turkish journalists' union asked that the media be authorized to do their job and at the end of these illegal detentions.

Earlier this week, 11 journalists were arrested in morning raids. Although initially imprisoned while waiting for the trial, they were released on Thursday but are still faced with accusations of participation in unleashing and illegal marches.

The Turkeys broadcasting authority published a 10 -day prohibition on Turkeys on Sozcu on Thursday, as well as fines and programs suspensions to other opposition chains. A British BBC journalist was also expelled on Thursday.

Turkey's courthouses face a peak in cases following demonstrations. Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya said on Thursday that nearly 1,900 people had been arrested since March 19.

Anxious families meet outside the judicial buildings to wait for the fate of their relatives, which the police can hold for four days.

The young people we call generation Z are more likely to participate in these events. They feel that something is wrong, “Savas Ozbek, whose daughter was detained on Sunday, told Ankara's shorts of News Agency.

Zeynep Ulger, who was expecting news from his friend, said they protested for a free democratic country, adding: the only thing we have done against this is to be beaten by police on the street and detention.

The lawyer based in Istanbul, Arif Anil Ozturk, who represents many demonstrators detained, gave his overview of the legal proceedings.

It is an illegal process from start to finish, he told the Cumhuriyet newspaper. There is no evidence, no sequence. Children are treated as terrorists.

Istanbul's nocturnal rallies organized by the Party of the Republican Peoples of Imamoglus, or CHP, ended on Tuesday. In other cities, and in Istanbul since the end of CHP rallies, largely peaceful demonstrations have been more organic.

However, the police used tear gas, water cannons and plastic pellets to remove demonstrations that have been prohibited in Istanbul, Ankara and Izmir.

On the campus of the Middle East technical university on the outskirts of the Ankara capital, nine students were arrested early Friday, opposition politicians who visited the site said.

Young people have installed tents inside (campus). Official administrators have evaluated this situation as a threat and invited the police at university to carry out an operation, said provincial president of CHP Umit Erkol on social networks.

Aylin Yaman, a CHP deputy, said the students sit on the grass and sang when the police stormed the area at 2 am. We oppose the participation of the police here as if it were a dawn operation and to create an atmosphere of fear, she said.

The association of the Istanbul bar announced that three lawyers had been among a hundred arrest during a demonstration Thursday in the district of Citys Sisli. Lawyers also said they were waiting for hours outside the police headquarters to access prisoners.

After the arrest of the day the day after the lawyer for Imamoglus Mehmet Pehlivan, he was revealed on Friday that he was accused of money laundering. Imamoglu, in an article on social networks, said that Pehlivan had been detained for fictitious reasons.

The turkeys, the Nobel winner author, Orhan Pamuk, writing in several European newspapers, said that events in the last 10 days represented the autocratic and autocratic rule of Erdogans (at) a level that we have never seen before.

Following a meeting with the Minister of Foreign Affairs turkey earlier in the week, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio described the events in Türkiye and disturbing. Speaking on a return flight from the Suriname on Thursday evening, he said: we are worried, we do not like to see the direction that goes … Every time you have instability on the field that you do not like to see it.

Imamoglu faces accusations resulting from two investigations on the metropolitan municipality to opposition to the opposition, a case of corruption and an alleged affirmation to terrorism.

The mayor was confirmed as the presidential candidate of the CHPS during an election currently scheduled for 2028 but which should take place earlier. He performed well in recent polls against Erdogan, and his election as mayor of the largest city in Turkeys in 2019 was a blow for the president.

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The writer Associated Press Matthew Lee in Miami contributed to this report.