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| The Grand Turk |
| Turkey protesters rally against crackdown on Kurdish activists |
| 2016-11-21 |
| [ALMASDARNEWS] Thousands of opposition protesters demonstrated in Istanbul on Sunday against a crackdown on MPs from ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... ’s main pro-Kurdish party and municipal chiefs in the southeast. At least 5,000 people -- mainly supporters of the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) and the secular Republican People’s Party (CHP) -- gathered on the Asian side of Istanbul. "Shoulder to shoulder against fascism ...a political system developed in Italy symbolized by the Roman fasces-- thin reeds, each flimsy in itself but unbreakable when bound into a bundle. The word is nowadays thrown around by all sorts of people who have no idea what they're talking about... ," the protesters shouted. Ten MPs from the HDP, including co-leaders Selahattin Demirtas and Figen Yukseksag, were enjugged Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit! this month on charges of links to the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK). Several mayors in the predominantly southeast of Turkey were also detained following similar accusations of links to the PKK. Turkey declared a state of emergency after a failed coup bid in July, with tens of thousands arrested in a massive crackdown which critics call a breach of human rights ...which are often intentionally defined so widely as to be meaningless... EU and US officials have expressed concern ...meaning the brow was mildly wrinkled, the eyebrows drawn slightly together, and a thoughtful expression assumed, not that anything was actually done or indeed that any thought was actually expended... over the arrest of opposition politicians as fears grow over Turkey’s use of emergency laws. The arrests come as Turkey wages a relentless battle to wipe out PKK rebels who have stepped up attacks since the collapse in 2015 of a fragile truce against Turkish security forces. The government accuses the HDP of links to the PKK but the party denies any organic bond with the banned group. |
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