{"id":26040,"date":"2011-08-25T10:24:25","date_gmt":"2011-08-25T09:24:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/?p=26040"},"modified":"2017-01-11T16:35:05","modified_gmt":"2017-01-11T16:35:05","slug":"turkey-police-raid-tv-station-and-newspaper-detain-journalists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/?p=26040","title":{"rendered":"Turkey: Police raid TV station and newspaper, detain journalists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On 18 August, police in <a title=\"Index on Censorship: Turkey\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/tag\/turkey\/\">Istanbul<\/a> raided the office of newspaper Aydinlik,\u00a0as well as Ulusal Kanal television station. Officials <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ifex.org\/turkey\/2011\/08\/24\/press_office_raids\/\">detained five journalists<\/a> following the raids, reportedly in connection to an ongoing investigation of <a title=\"Index on Censorship: Ergenekon\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/tag\/ergenekon\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ergenekon<\/a>, a &#8220;secular ultra-nationalist group&#8221; for\u00a0attempts to oust the adminstration of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Four of the journalists were released, but Turhan \u00d6zl\u00fc, executive editor of Ulusal Kanal, remains in custody.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 18 August, police in Istanbul raided the office of newspaper Aydinlik,\u00a0as well as Ulusal Kanal television station. Officials detained five journalists following the raids, reportedly in connection to an ongoing investigation of Ergenekon, a &#8220;secular ultra-nationalist group&#8221; for\u00a0attempts to oust the adminstration of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Four of the journalists were released, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[584,585],"tags":[3699,727,7355,3698],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26040"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26040"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26040\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79797,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26040\/revisions\/79797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}