Sputnik Turkey editor-in-chief detained by police, becomes 4th Russian news agency staffer in custody after nationalists' attacks
by RT
Sputnik Turkey editor-in-chief detained by police, becomes 4th Russian news agency staffer in custody after nationalists’ attacks
Russian news agency Sputnik has reported that police have entered its Istanbul office. Meanwhile, it is confirmed that Sputnik Turkey’s editor-in-chief has been detained.
The arrest of Mahir Boztepe, the head of Sputnik’s Turkish branch, was confirmed by RT and Sputnik editor-in-chief Margarita Simonyan. The agency said its chief was taken to the Istanbul Police Department’s main office.
This new development brings the number of detained Sputnik employees in Turkey to four. Earlier three agency staff members, who had been targeted by Turkish nationalists on Saturday and turned to police for help, ended up in custody.
The homes of Sputnik employees in Ankara were attacked by groups of Turkish nationalists in seemingly coordinated acts of harassment. The employees were not hurt and went to the police to file complaints, after which all contact with them was lost.
