{"id":123510,"date":"2026-07-06T15:33:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T15:33:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/123510\/"},"modified":"2026-07-06T15:33:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T15:33:14","slug":"journalists-detained-in-turkey-as-nato-summit-looms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/123510\/","title":{"rendered":"Journalists detained in Turkey as NATO summit looms"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Two journalists were detained in Turkey on Sunday, their media outlets said, in the latest police operations ahead of a NATO summit in Ankara this week that will be attended by leaders including US President Donald Trump, Turkish Minute<\/a> reported, citing Agence France-Presse.<\/p>\n

Buse S\u00f6\u011f\u00fctl\u00fc, international news editor at the T24 online newspaper, and Ceren Erdo\u011fdu, a journalist at OdaTV, were detained for reasons that were not immediately clear, according to their outlets.<\/p>\n

S\u00f6\u011f\u00fctl\u00fc\u2019s lawyer, Erman \u00d6zt\u00fcrk, told Agence France-Presse that the detention was believed to be linked to the NATO summit.<\/p>\n

The July 7-8 summit will bring leaders of NATO\u2019s 32 member states to Ankara under heavy security measures, road closures and a ban on public demonstrations.<\/p>\n

Major roads in the capital were closed, and police were stationed in side streets on Sunday as authorities tightened security ahead of the summit, which is being hosted by President Recep Tayyip Erdo\u011fan.<\/p>\n

The latest detentions came amid growing criticism from rights groups and opposition figures over what they describe as a growing crackdown on dissent before the summit.<\/p>\n

Erol \u00d6ndero\u011flu, Turkey representative for Reporters Without Borders (RSF), condemned what he called \u201cindiscriminate, arbitrary and chaotic operations launched ahead of the NATO summit,\u201d saying they \u201cclearly threaten the reputation and safety of journalists.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Cumhuriyet daily reported that dozens of people were detained on Sunday, without giving a reason.<\/p>\n

Ezgi \u00d6nalan, head of the \u0130stanbul branch of the Association of Contemporary Lawyers (\u00c7HD), was also detained, the lawyers\u2019 group said on X.<\/p>\n

The detentions followed earlier police operations in Ankara that Human Rights Watch said led to the detention of at least 209 people ahead of the summit, including political activists, lawyers, an academic and a journalist who is a prominent LGBT rights activist.<\/p>\n

Prosecutors said the operation was aimed at preventing the actions and activities of terrorist organizations, according to HRW.<\/p>\n

Authorities have also banned demonstrations and public gatherings in Ankara until after the summit. The Communist Party of Turkey (TKP) said 19 of its members were detained in the city on Sunday.<\/p>\n

Kemal K\u0131l\u0131\u00e7daro\u011flu, the court-reinstated leader of the main opposition Republican People\u2019s Party (CHP), condemned the crackdown on X, saying the suppression of democratic protest damaged Turkey\u2019s reputation.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is not the existence of protests that damages a country\u2019s reputation, but rather the suppression of the right to demonstrate democratically,\u201d he wrote, addressing Erdo\u011fan directly.<\/p>\n

The pressure on journalists has also extended to media access to the NATO summit. Several independent Turkish outlets, including T24, Cumhuriyet, ANKA and S\u00f6zc\u00fc TV, were denied accreditation to cover the summit, drawing criticism from press organizations. NATO has said that when summits are held outside its Brussels headquarters, accreditation decisions are made with the host country.<\/p>\n

Human Rights Watch said in a separate statement last week that the pre-summit operations showed what it called Turkey\u2019s \u201cruthless intolerance\u201d of freedom of speech and assembly.<\/p>\n

The summit comes as NATO members seek to show unity over defense spending, military production and support for Ukraine, while Trump\u2019s stance toward the alliance remains a concern for some European members.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two journalists were detained in Turkey on Sunday, their media outlets said, in the latest police operations ahead…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":123511,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[83],"tags":[60720,60721,131,132],"class_list":["post-123510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-stockholm","tag-ceren-erdogdu","tag-communist-party-of-turkey-tkp","tag-stockholm","tag-sweden"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/116873763843133898","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123510\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}