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Police detain daily Cumhuriyet's chief online editor in Istanbul

Police detained the chief online editor of daily Cumhuriyet in Istanbul on May 12.

"I am being detained," Cumhuriyet.com.tr Editor-in-Chief Oğuz Güven tweeted just after 7 a.m.

State-run Anadolu Agency, however, said Güven was detained over a report regarding the death of a chief public prosecutor in a car accident in the western province of Denizli. 

Car accident kills chief public prosecutor in Turkey's west

A chief public prosecutor and his driver were killed in a car accident in the Merkezefendi district of the western province of Denizli on May 10. 

Denizli Chief Public Prosecutor Mustafa Alper, 48, and his driver Muzaffer Akşehirli were killed when a truck laden with excavations crashed into their car on a highway.