The Turkish police arrested Monday night in Diyarbakir (south-east) thirty people during a series of raids on the headquarters of several Kurdish-language media, reported the Doğan news agency.
This has particularly targeted the Dicle News Agency (DIHA) and Azidiye Welat newspaper, said DHA.
In a statement released on social networks, the agency Dicle said that 32 journalists and other media employees of these had been taken into custody by anti-terrorist police.
Violent clashes resumed two months ago between Turkish security forces and rebels of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK). They shattered the peace talks initiated between the government and the Kurds in late 2012 to try to end a conflict that has already killed 40,000 since 1984.
For several weeks, several media are the target of police raids or criminal investigations for “terrorist propaganda” for the PKK.
The powerful Dogan Group, owner of the daily Hurriyet and CNN Turk channel information, is thus accused of publishing uncensored pictures of Turkish soldiers killed by the PKK and for airing an interview with a young rookie rebellion.
The publishing director of the magazine Nokta for his part was briefly placed in custody after the publication on the front page of its latest issue of a photomontage showing the Islamic-conservative President Recep Tayyip Erdogan taking a “selfie” before the coffin of a soldier.
Less than two months early parliamentary elections of November 1, the head of state is accused by his critics of wanting to silence any criticism against his regime.
Turkey is regularly singled out by NGOs in defense of press freedom, who accuse his government’s recurrent pressure on journalists.