{"id":31360,"date":"2011-12-21T12:41:00","date_gmt":"2011-12-21T12:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/?p=31360"},"modified":"2016-10-06T17:11:40","modified_gmt":"2016-10-06T16:11:40","slug":"turkey-40-journalists-arrested-in-alleged-terror-plot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/?p=31360","title":{"rendered":"Turkey: 40 journalists arrested in alleged terror plot"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Forty\u00a0<a title=\"Index on Censorship : Turkey\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/tag\/Turkey\" target=\"_blank\">Turkish<\/a> journalists were <a title=\"CNN : Turkey arrests journalists in alleged terror plot\" href=\"http:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2011\/12\/20\/world\/meast\/turkey-journalists-arrested\/?hpt=hp_t3\" target=\"_blank\">arrested in raids<\/a>\u00a0which targeted suspected members of the &#8220;press and propaganda wing&#8221; of a banned Kurdish separatist group. The arrests in Istanbul yesterday morning came\u00a0during <a title=\"RSF : POLICE ARREST 40 JOURNALISTS ON SUSPICION OF KURDISH SEPARATIST LINKS\" href=\"http:\/\/en.rsf.org\/turkey-police-arrest-25-journalists-on-20-12-2011,41578.html\" target=\"_blank\">continuing investigation<\/a> into the outlawed\u00a0\u00a0Union of Kurdistan Communities (KCK). At around 7am yesterday,\u00a0anti-terrorist police raided the offices of several media organisations, the majority of which were pro-Kurdish media. Hours after the arrests, hundreds of Turkish journalists participated in a hastily organised <a title=\"National Post : Turkey continues trend of imprisoning journalists with latest batch of arrests\" href=\"http:\/\/news.nationalpost.com\/2011\/12\/20\/turkey-continues-trend-of-imprisoning-journalists-with-last-batch-of-arrests\/\" target=\"_blank\">protest march<\/a>.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forty\u00a0Turkish journalists were arrested in raids\u00a0which targeted suspected members of the &#8220;press and propaganda wing&#8221; of a banned Kurdish separatist group. The arrests in Istanbul yesterday morning came\u00a0during continuing investigation into the outlawed\u00a0\u00a0Union of Kurdistan Communities (KCK). At around 7am yesterday,\u00a0anti-terrorist police raided the offices of several media organisations, the majority of which were pro-Kurdish [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"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":[346,2028,727,4120,7355],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31360"}],"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\/60"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31360"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79793,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31360\/revisions\/79793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}