April 10, 2025
Engin Belli, the owner of the local newspaper İstanbul Manşet, was taken into custody on April 10 over a news report concerning the Sultangazi district chair of the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP), Yusuf Özel. After giving his statement, the journalist was released under judicial control measures. Belli’s lawyer, Ali Acar, stated that the detention decision was “absolutely incompatible with the principle of proportionality.”