DIHA (Dicle Haber Ajansý) News Agency Kurdish editor Mehmet Ali Ertaþ, has been taken into custody once more. He had been arrested on 13 April while dealing with his passport papers. Today he was again in Van to collect his passport. After collecting the document he was taken into custody and taken to Diyarbakýr.

There are 91 journalists in prison in Turkey at present.