It was learned that MA reporter Mehmet Güleş was detained together with the volunteer during an interview where he criticized the rescue efforts of a volunteer who participated in the search and rescue efforts.
Police asked the journalists who were detained while they were following the news stories in the earthquake area, "Why did you come here?".
Netblocks announced that after the earthquakes, the vitally important social media platform Twitter was restricted in Turkey.
Minister of Transport Adil Karaismailoğlu and Governor Mahmut Çuhadar, who were condemned by citizens who are waiting desperately in the earthquake area in Adıyaman, left the area.
Professional organizations condemning the prevention of journalists working in earthquake areas said: "The right of People to be informed cannot be prevented."
MA reporter Mahmut Altıntaş and Mehmet Güleş, who was reporting news stories in earthquake areas, and JINNEWS reporter Sema Çağlak were detained.
Enes Gündüz, who was waiting for hopeful news from the Gündüz family, who is under rubble of the Galeria Business Center in Amed, said: “The rescue teams are very few, the cranes are in trouble, whatever concrete piece they touch is stuck, their ropes break. The pro-media is reporting false news.”
Those who lost their lives and were injured under the rubble in Adıyaman are held waiting in the corridors of the city's only hospital that provides services.
The State of Emergency decision covering 10 cities affected by the earthquake in Kurdistan was presented to the Parliament.
The residents of Urfa, who were affected by the earthquake, said. "The bakeries in the city were closed and the municipalities did not fulfill their responsibilities. We had a problem with shelter despite the cold weather.
Evaluating the painful picture that emerged in the Maraş-centered earthquake as a "massacre", Academic Savaş Karabulut said: "The death toll is much higher the ones announced and that the real responsible for what happened was the government."
Süleyman Bin Khalid student dormitory, one of the shelters opened by the Ministry of Youth and Sports for the victims of the earthquake, turned out to be damaged in the earthquake.
WHO announced that it has declared a "Level 3 Emergency" due to the consecutive earthquakes in Pazarcık.
Citizens of Adıyaman, which was most affected by the earthquake, marched to the Adıyaman Governor's Office to protest the authorities who did not carry out search and rescue efforts. Officials were removed from the governor's office under police protection.
Musa Köse, who was pulled out of the rubble in Îslahiye, which was half destroyed in the earthquake, said that the message "We are alive" was received from those who were in the same rubble, but there was no search and rescue efforts.