Turkish police detained 26 people after raids targeting LGBTQ groups. [1] Reuters filed 26. [1] France 24 filed dozens the same Sunday. [2] A detention count is not a trial. Print 26. Do not print Monday's 63 as Sunday news.

Ministry language about suspects is a charge, not a finding. Leave a named 63 to Monday if Monday owns one. Print 26. Print not a conviction.

Print 26. Sunday is not a trial. Dozens in France 24 is still not a closed 63. Print 26 as Sunday's named raid hold. Same-sex relations remaining legal is still not a vanished crackdown. Print 26 as still the named Reuters count. Print the raids as still not a finding. Widest and narrowest counts coexist; Sunday prints both unmerged.

Sunday's three numbers measure different things: 26 in custody, dozens swept, 162 under investigation. Conflating them makes a trial out of a night. The ministry counts widest; reporters count narrowest.

Unmerged numbers hold; Sunday holds them. Holding is honest. Trials need narrower counts.

Trials need narrower counts; Sunday's three numbers stay unmerged. Not Monday's 63. Reporters count narrowest.

Sunday's three numbers stay unmerged. Not Monday's 63. Reporters count narrowest.

Custody copy still reads twenty-six after Sunday's raids, not Monday's sixty-three. France 24's dozens and a ministry figure of 162 count different nets. Lawful status does not erase a crackdown. One night of raids is not a courtroom.
Lawful status does not erase a crackdown. Twenty-six is Sunday's custody copy, not Monday's sixty-three. Raids are not a courtroom.

Lawful status does not erase a crackdown. Raids are not a courtroom. Sunday's custody copy is twenty-six, not sixty-three.

-- ANNA WEBER, Berlin