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| The Grand Turk |
| Turkish court issues arrest warrant for HDP spokesperson |
| 2017-11-10 |
| [RUDAW.NET] A The warrant was issued after Baydemir failed to attend a hearing of a court in Urfa, southeast ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... , on charges related to terrorist propaganda stemming from a Newroz, Kurdish new year, event. His lawyer requested the court postpone the session instead of issuing the warrant so that Baydemir could appear before the court and defend himself. The Fifth Heavy Penal Court in Urfa refused the request and ordered security forces to bring the HDP spokesperson to court to give his testimony before the prosecutor. The same court postponed a hearing for another HDP MP, Dilek Ocalan, until March 2018. She is the niece of the imprisoned leader of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), Abdullah Ocalan. |
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