{"id":28457,"date":"2011-11-01T17:03:48","date_gmt":"2011-11-01T17:03:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/?p=28457"},"modified":"2016-10-06T17:11:41","modified_gmt":"2016-10-06T16:11:41","slug":"turkey-ragip-zarakolu-detained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/?p=28457","title":{"rendered":"Turkey: Publisher and activist Rag\u0131p Zarakolu detained"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Turkish publisher <a title=\"Index on Censorship - Rag\u0131p Zarakolu\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/tag\/ragip-zarakolu\/\" target=\"_blank\">Rag\u0131p Zarakolu<\/a>\u00a0, recipient of the 2008 International Publishers Association (IPA) Freedom to Publish Prize, was arrested on 28 October in Istanbul. Viewed by many as Turkey&#8217;s most prominent free expression and minority rights activist, Zarakolu has been accused of being a member of an illegal organisation under the anti-terror legislation, a press release from IPA said today. University professor B\u00fc\u015fra Ersanl\u0131 was also arrested and over 40 other individuals were taken into custody on the same day as part of a <a title=\"Today's Zaman - KCK operations confuse minds\" href=\"http:\/\/www.todayszaman.com\/columnist-261496-kck-operations-confuse-minds.html\" target=\"_blank\">recent crackdown<\/a> on the\u00a0KCK\u00a0(Union of Kurdistan Communities).\u00a0Zarakolu&#8217;s son, Deniz, was <a title=\"PEN International - Writer and academic Deniz Zarakolu arrested\" href=\"http:\/\/www.internationalpen.org.uk\/index.cfm?objectid=45709762-AE88-DD07-DB4871CD532BC349\" target=\"_blank\">also arrested last month<\/a>\u00a0after giving a lecture at the Political Science Academy of the pro-Kurdish Peace and Democracy (BDP) opposition party.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Turkish publisher Rag\u0131p Zarakolu\u00a0, recipient of the 2008 International Publishers Association (IPA) Freedom to Publish Prize, was arrested on 28 October in Istanbul. Viewed by many as Turkey&#8217;s most prominent free expression and minority rights activist, Zarakolu has been accused of being a member of an illegal organisation under the anti-terror legislation, a press release [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"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":[4059,584,585],"tags":[727,395,7355],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28457"}],"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\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28457"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28457\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30705,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28457\/revisions\/30705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}