Court sends 6 Partizan members to prison over Ibrahim Kaypakkaya commemoration

After the commemoration made for Ibrahim Kaypakkaya, one of the leaders of the ‘68 generation in Istanbul, 8 Partizan members, who were detained in house raids on the night of 18 May, were taken to the prosecutor’s office in Istanbul Courthouse.

Seven people were detained in Istanbul and 68-year-old Ismail Tepeli was arrested in his home in Erzincan. While 2 of the Partizan members who had been in custody for 8 days were released after the prosecutor’s statement, 6 people were arrested and taken to Silivri Prison.

The names of those arrested are as follows: Arzu Özdemir, Celal Koç, Samed Karaca, Bedirhan Özcan, Ünal Yiğit, Ismail Tepeli