New police operations were carried out in many cities this morning, including Amed (tr: Diyarbakır), Istanbul, Batman, Mardin and Şirnak. The Minister Ali Yerlikaya announced that 231 people were detained in house raids conducted in 30 provinces.

Many writers and journalists were also taken into custody in the operations, including Erdoğan Alayumat (journalist), Tuğce Yılmaz (journalist), Bilge Aksu (journalist), Ahmet Sünbül (journalist), Roza Metina (Mesopotamia Women Journalists Association (MKG) President), Bilal Seçkin (journalist), Mehmet Ücar (journalist), Suzan Demir (journalist), Ardın Diren (translator-director), Doğan Güzel (cartoonist), Hicri İzgören (writer), Ömer Barasi (translator-writer), Suzan Demir (journalist) and Baver Yoldaş (publishing house coordinator).

Dicle Fırat Journalists' Association (DFG) made a written statement regarding the detention of journalists in today’s political genocide operations.

Emphasising that the government wants to standardise the press, the DFG statement said: “The mind that tries to normalise censorship with legal regulations such as ‘censorship law’ and ‘influence agency’ aims to make it permanent with detention and arrest operations. The free press is targeted because it struggles for the truth to be made known. The understanding that aims to obscure the truth with detentions will fail to achieve results today as it did yesterday. The free press will continue to pursue the truth and convey it to the whole public. We do not accept the detentions against journalists and demand their immediate release.  We call on democratic public opinion and the whole society to protect the right to information. We call on all professional organisations to stand in solidarity against the detentions and once again we say loudly: journalism is not a crime."