Targeted by mainstream media outlets due the "Movement of the Nameless" (İsimsizler Hareketi) campaign that he has launched on social media, Taylan Kulaçoğlu was detained in Ayvalık, Balıkesir yesterday evening (May 17).

 

Taylan Kulaçoğlu announced his detention on his Twitter account, posting a brief message: "I am being detained."

 

Following his detention, journalist Hakan Gülseven, the Editor-in-Chief of RED magazine, also shared a brief message on his Twitter account and announced that he was being detained as well:

 

"And, yes, I am on my way to detention as well! It is shameful, but it is the situation of the country now! I cannot know exactly what it is about. An explanation is to be made."

 

Dilara Kara, the attorney of Taylan Kulaçoğlu, has indicated that her client will be referred to courthouse today (May 18).

 

"Taylan Kulaçoğlu was supposed to be released after the deposition procedures were completed. However, whatever happened (!), the prosecutor suddenly changed his mind and I learnt that he would be referred to courthouse tomorrow," Kara said in her Twitter post yesterday.