Öztürk Türkdoğan, co-chair of Human Rights Association (IHD) and some other human rights defenders have been detained by the police on Yüksel Avenue in the heart of Turkish capital Ankara.

The human rights defenders were set to announce the IHD report on rights violations on the first anniversary of the “we want our job back” action by dismissed educators –who are following the protest of Nuriye Gülmen and Semih Özakça- staged at Yüksel Avenue every day amid mass crackdown and detention by police forces.

The police, traditionally, did not allow the planned press statement and detained IHD Co-chair, IHD members and human rights defenders near him.

The detained defenders of human rights were forced into a police car that was already being kept ready in front of the Human Rights Monument in the area.

Following the detentions, police forcible expelled the people that had gathered around, including reporters for Mesopotamia News Agency who were battered during the intervention.