DİHA (Dicle News Agency) reporter İdris Yılmaz and JİNHA (Women's News Agency) reporter Vildan Atmaca have been remanded in custody in Van's Erciş district.

Yılmaz and Atmaca had been detained yesterday alongside İMC reporters Bekir Güneş and Ruşen Takva while covering the military blockade in Erciş yesterday morning. The detention came during a police crackdown on local people protesting the blockade and siege by police and military forces.

While İMC reporters were later released, DİHA reporter İdris Yılmaz and JİNHA reporter Vildan Atmaca were referred to a vacation court which ordered their arrest on charges of "spreading propaganda for a terrorist organisation" and "insulting the President".

İMC reporter Ruşen Takva said after her release that policemen assaulted and insulted them while in custody.

In the meantime, two more reporters for JİNHA, Öykü Dilara Keskin and Ceren Karlıdağ, were detained alongside 6 other people as a result of police intervention on a protest demo outside German and British Consulates in Istanbul earlier today.

The reporters were covering the protest by members of the ESP (Socialist Party of the Oppressed) and SGDF (Federation of Socialist Youth Associations) against the G-20 summit and the ongoing state terror in Amed's Silvan district.

The detainees have been taken to Karaköy police station.