Turkey detains employees of banned pro-Kurdish paper
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkish police have detained 24 employees of a pro-Kurdish newspaper after a court ordered its closure for allegedly engaging in "terrorist propaganda," a journalism group said Wednesday.
An Istanbul court ruled Tuesday that daily Ozgur Gudem was engaged in propaganda in favor of the Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, and ordered it shut down, saying it had acted as the "media organ" of the outlawed group.
Media reports said among those detained was Ozgur Gundem chief editor Zana Kaya, who told The Associated Press before the police raid on Tuesday that the newspaper had feared a clampdown in the aftermath of the coup.