On 28 March 2018, 21 people including İhsan Yaşar, the grant holder of Özgürlükçü Demokrasi newspaper and Kasım Zengin, owner of Gün Printing House, were detained on the allegations of “membership in a terrorist organisation” and “propagandasing for a terrorist organisation”. Among those detained, there were 19 employees for the printing house. It was defended that, in the news, they have point Turkey’s presence in Afrin as ” occupier” and they have used phrases such as “the Republic of Turkey which massacred civilians in Afrin”, in line with the purpose and ideology of the terrorist organization