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05-Nov-2019 |
10 October 2019: BirGün and Diken editors briefly detained Hakan Demir, the editor of the online edition of BirGün daily, was taken into custody during an early morning police raid on his Istanbul apartment on 10 October 2019. The grounds for Demir’s arrest was “the way in which a news item posted on the newspaper’s online edition was shared on Twitter.” Demir was referred to the courthouse later in the day. The 13th Criminal Judgeship of Peace ruled to release the journalist under an international travel ban. Another journalist, the responsible managing editor of the news portal Diken, Fatih Gökhan Diler, was also arrested the same day at Diken’s offices in Istanbul. Diler too was released under a travel ban by the criminal judgeship of peace he was referred to. Diler was detained as part of an investigation on the allegation of “incitement to hatred and animosity” on account of a news story posted on Diken that featured a statement by the speaker of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF). |
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