Detained Turkish journalist in Egypt “fine and well”
Vice Coordinator of Turkish state news network TRT's Arabic Broadcasting Service Mehmet Akif Ersoy said that Turkish journalist Metin Turan who was kept in Wadi El Natrun Prison near capital Cairo was fine
A group including Turkey’s Chargé d’Affaires Hasip Kaya, Vice Coordinator Ersoy and embassy's lawyer Hisam Faris visited Turan in Wadi El Natrun Prison.
Ersoy stated that Turan was fine and had no health problems.
Expressing they were allowed despite the prohibition on call with telephone, Ersoy said that Turan met with his wife and children for the first time after his detention on August 17, 2013.
Ersoy cited that Turan said 36 people were staying at a ward in the prison and there was no problem except from unfavorable conditions and there were 602 people detained due to same case, four of whom are Irish, two Syrians, one Sudanese and two Canadians.
Metin Turan had been detained last week during a violent police intervention in Cairo’s Ramses Square to disperse an anti-coup sit-in. He was among the protesters trapped in a mosque that was besieged by security forces.
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