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Turkish police detain veteran Kurdish politician in southeast: Sources
 [AlAhram] Turkish police on Monday detained a veteran Kurdish politician and a mayor in the southeastern province of Mardin, security sources said, the latest Kurds to be held as part of a wider crackdown on government opponents since a failed coup in July.Ahmet Turk, 74, who was first elected in 1973 to represent Mardin in the national parliament and served as a politician until 2015, was detained at home in what the state-run Anadolu agency said was part of an "ongoing terror investigation". The authorities also detained Emin Irmak, the co-mayor of a district within Mardin. Both were stripped of office last week by the government in a crackdown which has seen at least 34 elected mayors removed from municipalities in the largely Kurdish southeast over suspected Lion of Islam links. Sources said seven other local administration officials in the region were also detained. The leaders of the main pro-Kurdish opposition Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) were incarcerated Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! two weeks ago, drawing strong international condemnation of a widening crackdown on dissent under President Tayyip Erdogan. ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... has been fighting an armed Kurdish insurgency in the southeast and the government accuses the HDP and other Kurdish politicians of links to the PKK Lion of Islam group, deemed a terrorist organization by the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... and United States. Thousands of officials from the HDP, parliament's second biggest opposition party, have been detained in recent months. Posted by: trailing wife 2016-11-22 |
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