...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire....
, officials said on Sunday, as Ankara pushes a military operation against Kurdish militia in northern Syria.
Saleh Moslem, long a figurehead of the Syrian Kurdish movement, was detained on Saturday night at an upmarket Prague hotel, Czech and
The arrest comes as Turkey presses a military operation against the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) militia ‐ the military wing of the PYD ‐ in the enclave of Afrin in northern Syria.
Ankara sees the YPG and PYD as the Syrian branch of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), which for over three decades has waged an insurgency against the
...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing...as a terror group.
Moslem is wanted by Turkey over a February 2016 bombing in Ankara that killed 29 people that the
"The PYD chief has been placed in durance vile
Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up!
," President Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First
... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey...told cheering crowds in the southern city of Sanliurfa. "Our hope is the Czech Republic will hand him over to Turkey."
Czech police confirmed a 67-year-old foreigner was being held after being detained on Saturday based on a
"Ankara Interpol staff were informed of the arrest. The police will take the standard steps in line with the law," it said.