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Yavuz Selim Demirağ.
Columnist for Yeniçağ newspaper

21-Feb-2020

14 December 2020:

Yeniçağ columnist Demirağ briefly detained

Yavuz Selim Demirağ, a columnist for Yeniçağ newspaper, was taken into custody by police during midnight hours on 14 December 2019 at his Ankara home.

Demirağ was arrested based on a warrant that had been issued because the journalist had failed to give his statement as part of a trial where he is charged with “insult.” Demirağ was released after giving his statement to a judge on duty at the Ankara 46th Criminal Court of First Instance.