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.
Of the 128 people detained in Diyarbakır, 4 were lawyers and 14 more were referred to the courthouse.
While the number of those detained in the Diyarbekir-based operation increased to 28, 31 people were released.
Families of PKK Leader Abdullah Öcalan and Ömer Hayri Konar, Hamili Yıldırım and Veysi Aktaş held in İmralı Prison applied to the prosecutor's office and the prison directorate for a visit.
Amed City Theater made a statement upon the release of the actors who were detained in the Diyarbakır-based operation: "We have taken our fellow actors in custody, we are waiting for our play".
Stating that the country's record of freedom of the press has never been clean since history, academic Atilla Güney said: "No matter what anyone says, there is the fact of 'Kurdish journalism' in this country, and there is also the violence and oppression they get through."