Kurdish journalist
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Kurdish journalist detained for two days
Service Turkey – farmandar Qardes, a reporter for the Buru news agency, was detained during a night raid on his home in Istanbul and is still being held at the police station two days later. The charges against him are “membership in the PKK” and “activities for a terrorist organization.”
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Request for re-interrogation of ISIS member in Kurdish journalist murder case
Service Turkey – The lawyer for the family of Kadri Bagdo, a journalist for Azadi Valat newspaper who was murdered in Adana in 2014, announced that they will approach the prosecutor's office to re-interrogate ISIS member Talib Guler, who was recently transferred to this country from Syria by the Turkish Intelligence Agency (MIT). He emphasized that the case was mistakenly investigated as a normal murder from the beginning and that its connection to ISIS was ignored despite the confessions and evidence available.According to Kurdistan Press, the lawyer for the family of murdered Azadi Valat journalist Qadri Bagdu announced that they will approach the prosecutor's office to re-interrogate ISIS member Talib Guler, stressing that the case cannot be considered as a "normal judicial case."
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Cezire citizen arrested on charges of intending to join PKK
TURKEY SERVICE - A citizen of Cezire, Şırnak, who was arrested on a report of “joining an organization,” claimed to have been beaten and threatened with death inside an armored vehicle. It was also reported that the armored vehicle’s cameras were off at the time of the incident.