{"id":238,"date":"2020-08-10T15:42:55","date_gmt":"2020-08-10T12:42:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/susma24.com\/en\/?p=238"},"modified":"2020-08-10T15:42:55","modified_gmt":"2020-08-10T12:42:55","slug":"police-intervene-in-grup-yorum-concert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/susma24.com\/en\/index.php\/police-intervene-in-grup-yorum-concert\/","title":{"rendered":"Police intervene in Grup Yorum concert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prior to the <em>9<sup>th<\/sup> Independent Turkey Concert,<\/em> which was planned by Grup Yorum in Yenikap\u0131 on Sunday, 9 August, the arena was blockaded by the police.<\/p>\n<p>The police proceeded to intervene against the group members who had opened up a banner that read \u2018Grup Yorum is the people, it cannot be silenced\u2019 on the arena, whose entrances and exits blocked. It was reported that 25 people were taken into custody during the intervention. Releasing a statement on those under custody, the Legal Bureau of the People reported that they were later released from the police station.<\/p>\n<p>Preventing the reporters from recording what was transpiring during the intervention, the police confiscated the cameras and deleted the footage.<\/p>\n<p>The Governorate of Istanbul had previously announced in a statement that they would not allow the concert, which was a tribute to Helin B\u00f6lek and \u0130brahim G\u00f6k\u00e7ek, both of whom passed away in a hunger strike they had begun in protest at pressures on Grup Yorum and demanding fair trial.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, 5 August, Grup Yorum members who were rehearsing the concert in Beykoz, Polonezk\u00f6y were taken into custody, with the police organising a raid to \u0130dil Cultural Centre at the same hours.<\/p>\n<p>The Legal Bureau of the People had reported that their clients Dilan Poyraz, Bahar Kurt, Bet\u00fcl Varan, Eren Erdem, Bar\u0131\u015f Y\u00fcksel and Sercan Toptanc\u0131, all of whom were Grup Yorum members, had been taken into custody in Polonezk\u00f6y, Beykoz.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Impeding the concert to be held by Grup Yorum in Yenikap\u0131, the police battered and detained 25 people<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":239,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2753],"tags":[2793,2791,2792,99,1196,2790,2765],"class_list":["post-238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cases","tag-artists","tag-custody","tag-detention","tag-grup-yorum","tag-istanbul","tag-police-raid","tag-turkey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/susma24.com\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/susma24.com\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/susma24.com\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susma24.com\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susma24.com\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/susma24.com\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":240,"href":"https:\/\/susma24.com\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238\/revisions\/240"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susma24.com\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/susma24.com\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susma24.com\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susma24.com\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}