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Historian Çiğdem Bayraktar Ör detained

Television programmer and historian Çiğdem Bayraktar Ör has been detained due to a social media post.

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Academic Çiğdem Bayraktar Ör has been detained as part of an investigation launched against her on charges of "insulting the President" and "insulting a public official due to their duty."

The Istanbul Anatolian Chief Public Prosecutor's Office launched an investigation into Ör's social media post.

Çiğdem Bayraktar Ör was detained by teams from the Security Branch Directorate as part of the investigation launched on charges of "insulting the President" and "insulting a public official due to their duty."

Ör was taken to the police station for processing.

CHP İstanbul Provincial Chair Özgür Çelik made a post on his social media account regarding the detention of Çiğdem Bayraktar Ör.

Çelik used the following expressions in his post:

"Television programmer and academic Çiğdem Bayraktar Ör has been detained, with a social media post cited as the reason.

I spoke with Ör's husband; she is being taken to the Vatan Police Headquarters. We are following the process closely with our lawyers and legal commission.

We will continue to maintain solidarity against the regime of oppression that is being attempted to be established."

HERE IS THAT POST

The post made by Çiğdem Bayraktar Ör regarding her detention is as follows:

"The AKP and its corrupt government…

A 'diploma-less', meritless, partisan President who feeds on spite and has been able to become President without ever possessing the qualifications to be President

An 'acting head of government' who remains silent while those who stand against inviting a 'past its expiration date' terrorist who has slaughtered 50 thousand people to parliament are sent to prison

Their 'yes-men' who are 'men for all seasons'

Ministers of Justice who do not stand against injustice

A Minister of Health who still has not resigned, whose work—or lack thereof—is obvious, while our babies are slaughtered in intensive care and the hospital that committed the slaughter is given an award

A Minister of Tourism who still has not resigned, irresponsible and unchecked, whose failure to do his job is clearly evident while people, children and all, are burning to death in the winter frost

Ministers of Environment, Urbanization and Climate Change who know that columns are being cut, illegal structures are being expanded, and people will die in buildings made of sand, who do not take disaster risk measures to ensure life and property safety, and who do not do what is necessary despite seeing all kinds of perversion before their eyes

Ministers of Interior who do not care about the citizen's reaction to the refugee problem where anyone can enter the country as they please, leaving no public order or security, and who allow millions of illegal immigrants to destroy our security

Ministers of Labor and Social Security who easily open the path to citizenship for foreigners and grant the right to work and reside in Turkey 'without obtaining a work permit'

A Minister of Trade who was able to sell disinfectant to his own ministry at a price above the market during the pandemic

Ministers of Industry and Technology who provided investment support to him

A Minister of Transport and Infrastructure who did not take responsibility for the Çorlu train disaster, which could have been prevented with science and inspection

The head of the Red Crescent (Kızılay) who sells tents, a symbol of how far we have fallen from Refik Saydam, the Republican Minister who donated his own house to the Red Crescent

Insatiable government apparatuses that condemn people to tent cities instead of proper containers in this age, who cannot manage but still insist on management

Dishonorable politicians who have rented out their brains, abandoned their honor, easily swallowed what they said before for the sake of a seat, and give hand and power to this corrupt administration

Emine Erdoğan, who is a primary school graduate, neither a 'first' nor a 'lady,' but can speak at a Medical Congress and has her bag carried by others

Ignoramuses and traitors who call themselves 'journalists' and speak as if they are chatting while playing cards at a neighborhood coffeehouse

Spineless people who say 'Let the snake that doesn't touch me live a thousand years' while journalists, academics, and citizens who take a tomography of the situation are being silenced one by one

Those who feed on oppression and tyranny, how much further can you go?!

History has seen many of you. The end of them all was the same, you Greater Middle East Project (BOP) herds!

May those who fear you be like you.

We will not be silent, we will not be afraid!

This era, like its predecessors, will pass."