Journalists Mümtazer Türköne, Arda Akın Detained
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Former Zaman daily writer Mümtazer Türköne and Hürriyet daily reporter Arda Akın who are in the detention list which has been issued within scope of the two different probes launched into Fethullah Gülen Community have been taken into custody.
An operation was launched yesterday (July 27) against Zaman daily’s former 47 staff including its columnists and managers within the scope of July 15 coup attempt.
Detention warrant for 47 journalists
13 former staff were taken into custody yesterday.
The names of who have been taken into custody are as follows: Zafer Özsoy, Ahmet Metin Sekizkardeş, Cuma Kaya, Murat Avcıoğlu, Osman Nuri Arslan, Şeref Yılmaz, Hüseyin Turan, Faruk Akkan, Nuriye Ural, Şahin Alpay, Ahmet Turan Alkan ve Fevzi Yazıcı, Ali Bulaç.
Zeki Önal’s house was searched yet not taken into custody due to his age and illness.
Those in the detention list are as follows:
Osman Nuri Öztürk, Ali Akbulut, Bülent Keneş, Mehmet Kamış, Hüseyin Döğme, Süleyman Sargın, Veysel Ayhan, Şeref Yılmaz, Mehmet Akif Afşar, Ahmet Metin Sekizkardeş, Alaattin Güner, Faruk Kardıç, Metin Tamer Gökçeoğlu, Faruk Akkan, Mümtazer Türköne, Şahin Alpay, Sevgi Akarçeşme, Ali Ünal, Mustafa Ünal, Zeki Önal, Hilmi Yavuz, Ahmet Turan Alkan, Lalezar Sarıibrahimoğlu, Ali Bulaç, Bülent Korucu, İhsan Duran Dağı, Nuriye Ural, Hamit Çiçek, Adil Gülçek, Hamit Bilici, Şenol Kahraman, Melih Kılıç, Nevzat Güner, Mehmet Özdemir, Fevzi Yazıcı, Sedat Yetişkin, Oktay Vızvız, Abdullah Katırcıoğlu, Behçet Akyar, Murat Avcıoğlu, Yüksel Durgut, Zafer Özsoy, Cuma Kaya, Hakan Taşdelen, Osman Nuri Arslan, Ömer Karakaş.
Detention warrant for 42 more journalists
Custody order had been issued earlier on 42 journalists again within scope of the coup probe. 16 people have been taken into custody.
Arda Akın who was in this list has been taken into custody.
By July 28, the names of who have been taken into custody are as follows: Nazlı Ilıcak, Seyit Kılıç, Yakup Sağlam, Bayram Kaya, Cihan Acar, Bünyamin Köseli, Emre Soncan, Mustafa Erkan Acar, Cemal Azmi Kalyoncu, Abdullah Kılıç, Habip Güler, Mehmet Gündem, Cuma Ulus, Hanım Büşra Erdal, Hüseyin Aydın, Bülent Mumay.
The names in the list are as follows:
Abdullah Abdulkadiroğlu, Abdullah Kılıç, Ahmet Dönmez, Ali Akkuş, Arda Akın, Ayşe Nazlı Ilıcak, Bayram Kaya, Bilal Şahin, Bülent Ceyhan, Bülent Mumay, Bünyamin Köseli, Azmi Cemal Kalyoncu, Cevheri Güven, Cihan Acar, Cuma Ulus, Emre Soncan, Ercan Gün, Erkan Akkuş, Ertuğrul Erbaş, Fatih Akalan, Fatih Yağmur, Habip Güler, Hanım Büşra Erdal, Haşim Söylemez, Hüseyin Aydın, İbrahim Balta, Kamil Maman, Kerim Gün, Levent Kenez, Mahmut Hazar, Mehmet Gündem, Metin Yıkar, Muhammed Fatih Uğur, Mustafa Erkan Acar, Mürsel Genç, Selahattin Sevi, Seyid Kılıç, Turan Görüryılmaz, Ufuk Şanlı, Ufuk Emin Köroğlu, Yakup Sağlam ve Yakup Çetin.
According to bianet’s media survey report, 36 journalist are now in the prison.
Zaman daily has been shut down
131 media organs have been shut by “Statutory Decree Regarding Measures to be Taken Within Scope of State of Emergency and Regulation of Certain Institutes and Institutions”.
The reason of shutting down has been stated as “being related, affiliated or linked with Fethullahist Terrör Organisation (FETÖ/PYD) which has turned out to be threatening the national security". (NV/UA)