Turkish Police Raid Media Outlets, Detain Top Execs And Arrest Dozens

Turkish police raided a television station and a newspaper close to US-based Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen, detaining some people, media reports said, two days after President Tayyip Erdogan signaled a fresh campaign against Gulen's supporters. Police launched simultaneous operations at various addresses in Istanbul and provinces across Turkey, detaining people including a top executive of a television channel close to Gulen. "The free press cannot be silenced," a crowd chanted at the Istanbul offices of newspaper Zaman as editor Ekrem Dumanli made a speech to them broadcast live on television, defiantly calling on police to detain him.