{"id":29893,"date":"2016-10-31T02:27:45","date_gmt":"2016-10-31T02:27:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/turkey-detains-cumhuriyet-editor-in-chief-murat\/"},"modified":"2016-10-31T02:27:42","modified_gmt":"2016-10-31T02:27:42","slug":"turkey-detains-cumhuriyet-editor-in-chief-murat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/turkey-detains-cumhuriyet-editor-in-chief-murat\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkey detains Cumhuriyet editor in chief Murat Sabuncu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{Detention of Murat Sabuncu comes after closure of several opposition media organisations since July&#8217;s failed coup bid.}<\/p>\n<p>Turkish police have detained the editor-in-chief of Cumhuriyet, an opposition newspaper, according to Turkish media reports.<\/p>\n<p>Reports say that along with Murat Sabuncu, Guray Oz, a Cumhuriyet columnist, was also detained on Monday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Their residences were being searched, the reports said.<\/p>\n<p>Cumhuriyet, known for its critical stance towards the government, had got wide international attention in 2015 when it reported on a group of Syria-bound trucks allegedly sent by the country&#8217;s intelligence agency, carrying weapons to Syrian anti-government fighters.<\/p>\n<p>The reports did not give a reason for the detentions or the searches, which came as authorities crack down on anyone suspected of links to Fethullah Gulen, the US-based religious leader accused by the Turkish government of orchestrating a failed coup in July.<\/p>\n<p>Scores of opposition media organisations have been shut down since the government acquired state of emergency powers following the failed coup.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-16054 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/15b710458c094fd391b0c253033e33ea_18.jpg\" alt=\"Reports say that along with Murat Sabuncu, Guray Oz, a Cumhuriyet columnist, was also detained \" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{Detention of Murat Sabuncu comes after closure of several opposition media organisations since July&#8217;s failed coup bid.} Turkish police have detained the editor-in-chief of Cumhuriyet, an opposition newspaper, according to Turkish media reports. Reports say that along with Murat Sabuncu, Guray Oz, a Cumhuriyet columnist, was also detained on Monday morning. Their residences were being [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[101],"byline":[2474],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-29893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-internationl","byline-al-jazeera"],"bylines":[{"id":2474,"name":"AL JAZEERA","slug":"al-jazeera","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":null}],"contributors":[{"id":2474,"name":"AL JAZEERA","slug":"al-jazeera","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":null}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29893\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29893"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=29893"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=29893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}