Turkey detains 2 prominent journalists amid growing crackdown

ANKARA — Turkish police on Thursday detained two prominent journalists — Timur Soykan and Murat Agirel — in dawn raids amid a crackdown on dissent that accelerated following the arrest of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu and the ensuing protests.

Soykan and Agirel, investigative journalists working for left-leaning newspapers BirGun and Cumhuriyet, respectively, were taken into custody from their homes in Istanbul in the early hours of the morning over accusations of “threat” and…