GUNSHOTS were fired during a raid on a Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) official’s home in Turkey’s eastern Van province today as more than 70 were detained in operations across the country.

Police in ski masks stormed the home of of Omer Isik and opened fire before detaining him. Nobody was reported to have been injured in the raid, one of many across 11 Turkish provinces.  

Mesopotamia Agency editor Dicle Muftuoglu was among scores of journalists and politicians detained in the police operations, part of a brutal state crackdown.