Oktay Candemir, a Turkey-based Kurdish journalist, has been taken into custody in Van province.
According to the GazeteKarınca news portal, Candemir was detained by Van police during a police raid on Friday morning.
In September 2017, he was given a prison sentence of 18 months for “terrorism propaganda” over news reports.
Gazeteci Oktay Candemir gözaltına alındıhttps://t.co/2l8Ze9cDSo pic.twitter.com/FONWV1Pu77
— Gazete Karınca (@GazeteKarinca) April 5, 2019
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