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A court in Diyarbakır ordered the arrests of the 16 on 15 June. The specifics of the charges are unclear due to a gag order on the investigation, but all those detained were questioned about their journalistic activities.
Turkish police arrested 21 Kurdish journalists and media workers in a massive operation in the Kurdish-majority southeastern province of Diyarbakir on terrorism charges. The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and its Turkish affiliates strongly condemn these massive arrests of journalists on groundless charges and urges for the immediate release of all of them.