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| The Grand Turk |
| Turkey's Kurds demand Öcalan's release |
| 2015-02-16 |
| [ARA] Subsequent to a protest on the anniversary of the arrest of Abdullah Öcalan, leader of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), festivities broke out between Kurdish citizens and members of the Turkish police in Nusaybin town of Mardin province, in southeastern Turkey, near the Syrian city of Qamishli (Qamishlo), local sources reported on Sunday. Speaking to ARA News in Nusaybin, Mohammed Hussein said that the Kurdsh residents of Nusaybin took to the street to revive the 16th anniversary of Öcalan's imprisonment, condemning his arrest by the Turkish authorities. Öcalan is held in Imrali Island of Marmara province. "The festivities erupted after the protestors stoned the security forces who tried to disperse them with tear gas," the source said. Hussein added that protests swept Turkey's Kurdistan (Turkish areas where Kurds constitute majority), as rallies and demonstrations took place in the cities of Diyarbakir, Batman, Qizil Tepe, Mardin, Cizre Botan, Sharnakh, and Midyat. The protestors condemned what they described "the international conspiracy against PKK's leader", demanding his release to facilitate the grinding of the peace processor between the Turkish government and the Kurdish parties in Turkey. Noteworthy, the Kurdish cities in Turkey are experiencing annual demonstrations by supporters of the PKK and its leader Abdullah Öcalan to demand his release, but those demands did not resonate with the Turkish government. |
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