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German-Kurdish singer jailed in Turkey on terror charge
[AlAhram] A German-Kurdish singer was sentenced on Wednesday to more than six years in prison in ...Qatar's colony in Asia Minor.... for membership of a terrorist organization, her lawyer said. Saide Inac, who performs under the name Hozan Cane, was tossed in the slammer Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try! in Turkey on June 23 while attending a campaign event for the Pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) ahead of parliamentary and presidential elections. The court in Edirne, northwest Turkey, sentenced her on Wednesday to six years and three months in jail, her lawyer Mustafa Pekoz said, adding that she would appeal. According to her family, the prosecution relied on photographs of Inac with fighters from the Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG), which Turkey considers to be a "terrorist offshoot" of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK). Inac was convicted of being a member of the PKK, which is blacklisted as a terror organization by Turkey, the United States and the European Union  ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing...But Inac's relatives say the pictures were taken from a documentary she made about the persecution of the Yazidi religious minority by the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... group in Iraq. The imprisonment of the singer, who lives in Cologne  ...the largest city in North Rhine-Westphalia and the fourth populated city in Germany...., comes amid a thaw in relations between Turkey and Germany after a series of spats. Posted by: trailing wife 2018-11-15 |
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