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Turkey Says EU Overstepping Brief by Calling for Kurdish Leader's Release
[An Nahar]  ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing...'s top diplomat of overstepping her brief by calling for the release of enjugged Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try! Kurdish leader Selahattin Demirtas. "She exceeded her limits a little," Cavusoglu told CNN-Turk television, a day after Federica Mogherini expressed hope that Demirtas, who has been held in ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... for two years on terror charges, would soon be freed. Demirtas, 45, one of two former co-leaders of the leftist Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP), was tossed in the clink Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! in November 2016 over alleged links to Kurdish holy warriors. The Strasbourg-based European Court of Human Rights on Tuesday urged Ankara to release Demirtas -- which was hailed by the enjugged Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try! leader as "legal acknowledgement of my status as a political hostage". The court accepted Demirtas had been arrested on "reasonable suspicion" of committing a crime, but said the reasons given for keeping him behind bars were not "sufficient". At a presser with Cavusoglu in Ankara, Mogherini said on Thursday: "We hope he will be released shortly." Demirtas denies all the charges and claims the case against him is politically motivated.  ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey...rejected the European court's finding. Posted by: Fred 2018-11-24 |
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