Journalist Merdan Yanardag was detained on charges of "praising a crime and a criminal" and "conducting propaganda for a (terror) organization" after a live broadcast.

The police went to the headquarters of the television channel at noon and detained Yanardag on Monday.

In a speech on TELE1, Yanardag said: “The isolation of Abdullah Öcalan has no legal basis. It should be lifted. He is not even allowed to meet his family and lawyers. How is such a system of execution possible?”