Turkish police raided the offices of Özgürlükçü Demokrasi newspaper and Gün Printing House in Istanbul last week. A trustee was appointed to the newspaper and 25 workers were taken into custody.

Special operations police have carried out a raid on the flats of newspaper workers last night and detained journalists Reyhan Hacıoğlu, Pınar Tarlak, Hicran Urun and Mehmet Beyazıt, a former employee of the daily.

According to reports, police used a gendered language during the operation and seized several belongings of the journalists such as books, letters and photographs as well as some issues of the newspaper