ISTANBUL. - Ragip Zarakolu, a well-known human rights defender and director of Belge Publishing House, in Turkey, whom Turkish police detained two days ago within the framework of the KCK (Kurdistan Communities Union) affair, was taken to court on Monday morning. 

Along with several leaders of the Kurdish “Peace and Democracy Party” and Professor Busra Ersanli, Zarakolu was taken to a district court in Istanbul, CNN Turk news agency reported.     

On their way to the court, some of the detained made the victory sign to news reporters and shouted: “If there is justice, we are free!”

Ragip Zarakolu’s Belge Publishing House has published numerous books on the Armenian Genocide, and Zarakolu had visited Armenia in Spring 2011.