DFG made a statement regarding the continuation of the detention operations against journalists and said: “Our co-chairperson Dicle Müftüoğlu and journalist Sedat Yılmaz should be released immediately. You will not be able to bend the pen of the truth, you will not be able to silence the free press."
The police, who attacked the Saturday Mothers and human rights defenders who wanted to make a statement in Galatasaray Square, where the blockade was not lifted despite the Constitutional Court's "violation" decision, detained 25 people.
Evaluating the Diyarbakır-based detention operation, ÖHD Co-Chair Ekin Yeter said: "The detention and arrest of lawyers does not comply with the 'legal security principle'. We will never step back from our determination."
Condemning the pressure on the Kurdish press and the arrest of their colleagues, Journalists in Mersin said: "As long as the truth exists, there will be journalists who will cling to it."
Condemning the detentions and arrests of the Free Press, Journalists stated that they will continue to be on the streets to defend the truth and called for solidarity against the oppression.
Houses were raided in some cities based on an Ankara-based investigation. Many people, including our agency's editor Sedat Yılmaz and DFG Co-chairperson Dicle Müftüoğlu, were detained during the raids.
Journalists Osman Akın and Salih Keleş were referred to the court for judicial control measures.
Lawyer Resul Temur and journalist Ahmet Kanbal were released with a judicial control measure.
During the detention operation in Diyarbakır, Halise Aksoy and her daughter Mizgin Karataş, whose bones of her son Agit İpek were sent to her by cargo, were also arrested.
11 more people were arrested in the detention operation in Diyarbakır. The number of those arrested increased to 39.
Journalists Ahmet Kanbal, Salih Keleş and Osman Akın, who were detained in the Diyarbakır-based operation, were brought to the courthouse.
Speaking at the protest held in front of the Diyarbakır Courthouse regarding the detentions and arrests in Diyarbakır-centered 21 provinces, Green Left Party MP candidate Mehmet Emin Aktar said: "The aim is to create fear, but we are not afraid, we are here."
Labor and Freedom Alliance announced that they will support Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu in the Presidential elections.
Imprisoned HDP MP Semra Güzel stated that the Kurdish people on trial are the reality, and it was decided to continue her detention in the hearing.
The prosecutor, who gave an opinion on the journalists Ferhat Çelik and İdris Yayla, who reported on the detention of the journalists who announced to the public that 2 citizens were thrown from the helicopter in Van, demanded the punishment of the journalists.