Former chief editor of the Kurdish-Turkish Renge Heviya Jine women magazine, Berivan Eker, was arrested because of her articles, reported Bianet website.

Two investigations were launched about the journalist on charges of "spreading propaganda for an illegal organization" and, based on articles from June and July 2010, on "committing a crime on behalf of an illegal organization". The investigations were merged later on. According to Bianet, Eker was taken into police custody on Sunday (5 December) in order to take her statement. She had not been informed about the investigations because she was out of town. On Sunday, she was actually going to a meeting with her lawyer.

Renge Heviya Jine (The colour of the women's hope) is the only women magazine in Turkey publishing in both the Kurdish and the Turkish language. It is expected that a trial will be opened against Eker under the allegations mentioned above.

The magazine's former editor-in-chief, Gurbet Çakar, was arrested by the Public Prosecution of Diyarbakýr when she went to the prosecution in order to give her statement. The prosecutor demanded prison terms of up to 20 years for Çakar on charges of "spreading propaganda for an illegal organization via the media" and "membership of the PKK" (Kurdistan Workers' Party).

Besides Gurbet Çakar and Berivan Eker, three other Turkish journalists are currently behind bars, namely Vedat Kurþun and Ozan Kýlýç, both former chief editors of the Kurdish Azadiya Welat newspaper, and Bedir Adanýr, owner of Aram Publishing and official of the Kurdish Hawar newspaper. Additionally, more than 25 journalists are in jail for alleged affiliations to terror organizations.