Wednesday, April 11, 2012

9 arrested, including an ETHA reporter and two students, in relation to the Newroz celebrations in Istanbul

According to the report in Turkish on Bianet on April 10, Cagdas Kucukbattal, a reporter working for the ETHA news agency was among the 9 people who got arrested in relation to the Newroz celebrations on March 18 in Istanbul. Kucukbattal, who was filming the celebrations, had previously been detained and kept under arrest for 9 months because he covered the protests against the base station receivers erected in the Gazi neighborhood of Istanbul.

The report states that the remaining group of people arrested in relation to the Newroz celebrations in Istanbul, among members of legal political organizations, also include two Istanbul University students Mehmet Akip Bilgin and Eren Yurt.