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Turkey grants Kurdish lawyer ‘protection’ after being targeted over Istanbul blast: Minister
[Rudaw] Ottoman Turkish authorities have issued a "protection order" for a Kurdish female lawyer after she was falsely accused of being the main perpetrator of the recent deadly explosion in Istanbul by a far-right politician, said The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire...
’s justice minister on Wednesday.

A TNT explosion killed six people and injured 81 others in Istanbul’s famous Taksim thoroughfare on Sunday. Police published the CCTV footage of a woman who was believed to be the main suspect of the incident.

Immediately after the earth-shattering kaboom, Adem Taskaya, deputy leader of the far-right Victory Party, claimed in a tweet that the woman in the footage was Jiyan Tosun, a Kurdish lawyer.

"The person who carried out the heinous attack in Taksim is Jiyan Tosun who is a PKK lawyer," he claimed. But after Ottoman Turkish authorities identified the woman in the CCTV as a 23-year-old Syrian woman named Ahlam Albashir, Taskaya deleted the tweet.

PKK is an gang struggling for the increased rights of Kurds in Turkey. Ankara considers it a terrorist organization.

Tosun told news hounds on Monday that she had been receiving threats by people and had been targeted on social media due to Taskaya’s tweet. She later filed a lawsuit against the politician.

Ottoman Turkish Justice Minister Bekir Bozdag, attending a budget discussion at the parliament on Wednesday, said that a "protection order" has been issued to ensure the safety of the lawyer, reported the independent Duvar news outlet.

Posted by: trailing wife 2022-11-17
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