Varan Beş!
“Journalists Timur Soykan and Murat Ağırel were detained.”
Both journalists were known to prove the allegations against Mayor of Istanbul were fabrications and hearsay.
As increasingly getting usual with these detention cases now, although both informed the Istanbul DA’s office that they would be available in the morning to testify as they’re requested, they were, according to new norm, taken from their homes at “dawn raids” during wee small hours of the morning by the police as if they intended to run away.
Those so called dawn raids not only serve to strike fear among opponents, journalists in particular, but also give DA option of to treating suspects as criminals and they had to be brought to detention under force rather than show up voluntarily for questioning.
Opposition describes this tactic as implementation of the law of the enemy (org: The
Feindstrafrecht "Criminal Law of the Enemy") which describes certain people, as enemies of the society (or the state) and as such, do not deserve the protections of the civil or penal law.
Mr. Ağırel’s message while he was taken under custody