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| Over 80 HDP, DBP members detained in Turkey's southeast |
| 2015-09-21 |
| [Hurriyet Daily News] As many as 85 officials from the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) and the Democratic Unity Party (DBP), including the mayor of the southeastern province of Batman and his deputy, have been detained after they attempted to enter a military security zone in Batman's Sason district. Batman Mayor Sabri Özdemir, deputy mayor Gulistan Akel and HDP Batman provincial head Rojda Surucu along with others were detained by gendarmerie forces on Sept. 19 after they attempted to enter a military security zone where an outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) myrmidon was killed in Sason's Kelhasan village on Sept. 19. Among the 85 detained were Besiri district Mayor Mustafa Özturk, Gercus district Mayor Abdulkerim Kaya, Iki Köpru town Mayor Osman Karabulut, Batman Municipality Assembly President Salih Altun and DBP Batman provincial head Mehmet Candemir. Behcet Kara, a resident of Kelhasan, where a military-imposed curfew is in effect, said residents of the village wanted the curfew to be lifted and they hoped for to return to normality. "We wish for peace and democracy," Kara added. Some of the people detained were on a minibus heading to Sason when it was stopped at a checkpoint placed by the Yanikkaya Gendarmerie Command to deny entry to the district. |
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