24 journalists were detained with charges of resisting arrest in the raid on the newspaper building following the court decision to close down Özgür Gündem and they are kept in various police stations. Detained journalists have exercised their right to remain silent while the detentions were prolonged until Friday. Sources report the journalists will be referred to the prosecutor’s office on Friday.

The names of the journalists kept in Karaköy, Kasımpaşa and Taksim police stations are as follows:

Karaköy Police Station: Doğan Güzel, Ersin Çaksu, Kemal Bozkurt, Zeki Erdem, Sinan Balık, Yılmaz Bozkurt, Davut Uçar, Mesut Kaynar, Fırat yeşilçinar and Hüseyin Gündüz

Taksim Police Station: Elif Aydoğmuş, Gülfem Karataş, Sevdiye Ergürbüz, Reyhan Hacıoğlu, Amine Demirkıran, Güney Aksoy and Burcu Özkara

Kasımpaşa Police Station: Önder Elaldı, Ender Öndeş, Özgür Paksoy, Bayram Balcı, İMC TV cameraman Gökhan Çetin.