Kars Co-Mayor Alaca remanded in custody
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- 09:26 09/10/2020
After Ayhan Bilgen Şevin Alaca has also been arrested today.
After Ayhan Bilgen Şevin Alaca has also been arrested today.
The court has accepted the indictment lodged against Cemal Metin A. for killing university student Pınar Gültekin. He is now facing aggravated life imprisonment on charge of “killing with monstrous feeling.”
Kars Co- Mayor Şevin Alaca who has been detained for 8 days has been brought to the courthouse.
Kurdish women politicians Sebahat Tuncel, Aysel Tuğluk, Gültan Kışanak and Gülser Yıldırım imprisoned by the Turkish state are to be interrogated within the framework of the "Kobanê investigation".
Murat İde, the press advisor of İYİ Party Chair Meral Akşener, has been taken into custody in Giresun over an article that he penned five years ago.
The number of people remanded in custody after the police political operation in Kars rose to 12. Five people including Kars Co-Mayor Şevin Alaca are expected to be brought to court today.
Seventeen senior figures of the HDP have been remanded in custody after a new investigation was opened into the 2014 "Kobani protests" in Kurdish-majority provinces.
10 people detained in Kars were brought to the courthouse for a deposition to the prosecutor. Kars Municipality Co-Chair Şevin Alaca is still giving her statement at the police headquarters.
Stating that the detention of its reporters Pınar Gayıp was part of the operation to silence the opposition press, ETHA demanded their reporter to be released at once.
A "confidentiality" order has been brought in the investigation file of the journalists whose detention periods have been extended for another 4 days. HDP member Ümit Dede said that Cemil Uğur, one of the journalists with whom he spoke, said that the main reason for the operation was that they courageously uncovered the two men thrown from a helicopter.
The Mesopotamia Women Journalists Platform celebrated Kurdish Women Journalists Day. "We never hesitate to seek truth, and we won’t start doing it now.”
Stating that the torture Osman Şiban and Servet Turgut were subjected to is being covered up by the government, HDP Van MP Murat Sarısaç said that this cover up is the reason why the government targeted journalists.
Within the scope of the investigation launched against ESP and SGDF in Istanbul, many people, including ESP Co-Chair Şahin Tümüklü and SGDF Co-chair Alev Özkiraz, were detained.
Brother of Servet Turgut who was thrown from a helicopter, Naif Turgut protested the detention of the journalist who brought the killing of his brother to the agenda and said: "They tried to uncover the injustices done to us. They tried to be our voices."
The Human Rights Association (İHD) has stated, “No effective or transparent inquiry, work or investigation has been conducted by legal or administrative bodies regarding the social incidents known as Kobanê incidents of October 6-8, 2014.”