Web editor of Turkey's opposition newspaper BirGün taken into custody

BirGün web editor Burak Ekici has been taken into custody at a dawn operation launched by police on Wednesday (August 10).

Raiding Ekici’s house at very early morning hours and seizing his computer and mobile phone, police detained him and took him to Vatan Police Station in İstanbul's Fatih district.

Accusations against him have not been disclosed yet.