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| Turkey Detains Dozens over Alleged PKK Links |
| 2016-10-13 |
| [AnNahar] Turkish police have detained dozens of people including pro-Kurdish party officials, accusing them of spreading propaganda for the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), a security source said on Wednesday. At least 49 people were detained for allegedly spreading "terror propaganda" and "membership of a terror group", as part of an operation against the PKK in Van and Hakkari in eastern and southeastern ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... , the official told AFP. Among the detainees were several officials from local branches of the pro-Kurdish, left-wing Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP). The Turkish government says the party has links to the PKK -- a claim the HDP denies. Two members of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) were killed this week in two attacks that were blamed on PKK hard boys. It was not immediately clear if the latest arrests were linked to a police hunt for the perpetrators of the attacks in Van and in the southeastern city of Diyarbakir. |
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