In the morning hours, Turkish police stormed several flats in Ankara. Six people were taken into custody during the raids. They are accused of making critical comments on social media about the Turkish attacks on northern and eastern Syria. The detainees were taken to the police headquarters in Ankara. Statements critical of war in particular are judged as "terror propaganda" in Turkey and can lead to sentences of many years in prison.

Most recently, the Turkish government press declared a heavy drone attack on an UN-sponsored education centre for girls, in which four young women were killed, a "strike against YPJ terrorists". With the help of repression against journalists, but also through arrests like the one in Ankara, the regime seems to want to impose a sovereignty of discourse for its own false reports.