Merdan Yanardağ and Enver Aysever are distinguished Istanbul-based political commentators with massive social media followings. Each have criticised the federal government’s rescue efforts. They’re each underneath investigation together with Mehmet Güleş, who, like Mr Koçer, relies in Diyarbakir. He was detained on suspicion of “inciting hatred” for interviewing a volunteer essential of the federal government’s rescue effort and later launched, in response to RSF.
