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October 22nd, 2017 
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nsnbc : Three of the five journalists arrested during early morning raids on Friday were released on Saturday while JinNews reporters Duygu Erol and Habibe Eren, who have been held in Anti-Terror Branch (TEM) in Ankara, are expected to be sent to the courthouse on Monday.
Journalists Sibel Yükler, Diren Yurtsever and Selman Güzelyüz who were arrested during early morning house raids on Friday have been released after being questioned. An operation against journalists was carried out yesterday morning in Ankara, saying that there are “complaints” against them. JinNews reported on Saturday:
“Many journalists, including our editor Sibel Yükler, our reporters Duygu Erol and Habibe Eren and Mesopotamya Ajansı (Mesopotamia Agency) reporters Diren Yurtsever and Selman Güzelyüz, were taken into custody after the house raids. … Today, our editor Sibel Yükler and Mesopotamia Agency reporters Diren Yurtsever and Selman Güzelyüz have been released after being questioned. Our reporters Duygu Erol and Habibe Eren, who have been held in Anti-Terror Branch (TEM) in Ankara, are expected to be sent to courthouse on Monday”.
Police took Jin News Editor Sibel Yükler, Jin News reporters Duygu Erol and Habibe Eren as well as Mezopotamya Agency reporters Diren Yurtsever and Selman Güzelyüz into custody Friday morning. Police also searched the houses of the five journalists.
JinNews started broadcasting in Turkish, Kurdish and English on jinnews.com.tr at the end of September 2017 like the Mezopotamya Agency. Working with woman editors and correspondents, JinNews is practicing women-oriented journalism. 15 media outlets including Turkey’s first news agency JINHA, founded 2012 in Diyarbakır, a predominantly Kurdish province in south-eastern Turkey, were closed through a statutory decree issued on October 29, 2016. Following the closure, Gazete Sûjin started its publication life in December 2016. Gazete Sûjin was also closed through a statutory decree on August 25.
Jinnews is regularly publishing and broadcasting on issues such as the Syrian Kurdish PYD and its military wings the YPG and YPJ, the YPG-led (U.S.-backed) Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), news about the Kurdistan Worker’s party (PKK), Kurdish Peshmerga in Syria, oppression of women by Iraqi, Iranian-backed, Shiite Hash al-Shaabi (Popular Mobilization Forces) and other issues.
Turkey considers the PKK as a terrorist organization – a status that is increasingly being challenged by EU member states. Turkey also designates the Syrian PYD and its military wings YPG/YPJ as terrorist organizations allied and on par with the PKK. The five journalists are likely to be facing charges of supporting a terrorist organization without being a member, charges for terrorist propaganda, and possibly – although unlikely – charges for membership in a terrorist organization.
The arrest of the five journalists brings the number of journalists, currently detained in Turkey up to about 57. The actual number could be higher as arrests of journalists from smaller media or independent bloggers may not have been reported.
CH/L – nsnbc 21.10.2017
Source Article from https://nsnbc.me/2017/10/21/turkish-reporters-duygu-erol-and-habibe-eren-held-by-anti-terror-branch-in-ankara-expected-in-court-on-monday/
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