{"id":136553,"date":"2026-07-28T15:35:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T15:35:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/136553\/"},"modified":"2026-07-28T15:35:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T15:35:11","slug":"journalist-briefly-detained-over-report-on-alleged-abduction-of-pro-kurdish-party-member","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/136553\/","title":{"rendered":"Journalist briefly detained over report on alleged abduction of pro-Kurdish party member"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A Kurdish journalist was detained in \u0130stanbul on terrorism-related accusations for his reporting on the alleged abduction of a member of a pro-Kurdish opposition party, after which he was released under judicial supervision, the Mezopotamya News Agency (MA) reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Police detained Fermandar Karde\u015f, a reporter for the pro-Kurdish Ber\u00fb news agency, during a raid on his home on July 25 on accusations of membership in a terrorist organization and acting on its behalf. Officers seized his camera, computer, microphone and memory card.<\/p>\n

Karde\u015f was held at the \u0130stanbul Police Department for two days, during which authorities prevented him from meeting with his lawyer. He was then taken to the \u0130stanbul Courthouse where a prosecutor questioned him about his report<\/a> on F\u0131rat Kovan.<\/p>\n

Kovan, a member of the Peoples\u2019 Equality and Democracy Party (DEM Party) Youth Assembly, said he was abducted in \u0130stanbul\u2019s Esenyurt district on July 15 by people identifying themselves as police officers. He said<\/a> he was forced into a vehicle and taken to an isolated location, where he was assaulted and pressured to become an informant. He also accused them of threatening him and his family.<\/p>\n

In his statement to the prosecutor Karde\u015f denied the accusations, saying the report was part of his journalistic work. The prosecutor referred him to a criminal magistrate of peace, which released<\/a> him under judicial supervision, including a travel ban.<\/p>\n

Turkey frequently brings terrorism-related charges against journalists and media workers, often alleging links to the outlawed Kurdistan Workers\u2019 Party (PKK), which has waged a decades-long insurgency and is designated as a terrorist organization by Turkey and its Western allies.<\/p>\n

Press freedom and human rights groups say such cases often rely on reporting activity, sources or published content rather than evidence of involvement in violence and are used to deter critical coverage of the Kurdish issue,\u00a0a reference to demands for equal rights and recognition by the country\u2019s Kurdish population.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Kurdish journalist was detained in \u0130stanbul on terrorism-related accusations for his reporting on the alleged abduction of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":136554,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[83],"tags":[66036,66037,66038,36406,5954,2911,2033,131,132,66039,155],"class_list":["post-136553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-stockholm","tag-beru-news-agency","tag-fermandar-kardes","tag-firat-kovan","tag-judicial-supervision","tag-kurdistan-workers-party-pkk","tag-peoples-equality-and-democracy-party-dem-party","tag-press-freedom","tag-stockholm","tag-sweden","tag-terrorism-investigations","tag-turkey"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/116998342300728813","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136553","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=136553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136553\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/136554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}