‘Dark day for Turkey’: Pro-opposition TV channel boss slams police raid, broadcast halt

Turkish police raided the headquarters of the pro-opposition Halk TV, halting its live broadcasts and arresting 11 people, the channel and prosecutors said early Wednesday. "Police raid at Halk TV headquarters! A trustee (manager) has been appointed, broadcasts have been halted," the channel wrote on X shortly before 7:00am (0400 GMT). Halk's news channel and the live broadcasts on its YouTube site were both offline. To display this content from X (Twitter), you must enable advertisement tracking and audience measurement. It was the latest crackdown on the pro-opposition media and came just two weeks after the authorities shut down the website and social media accounts of T24, a leading digital news website, citing its "LGBT propaganda". Read moreTurkey detains dozens in raids of bars, homes in crackdown on LGBTQ community In a statement to Turkish media, prosecutors said they had issued a warrant for 17 people, 11 of whom had been detained as part of an investigation into Halk's chairman Cafer Mahiroglu on suspicion of "bribery", "rigging tenders", and "money laundering". It said companies co-owned or managed by Mahiroglu had been seized and that the authorities put a government-a...