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has sentenced two Kurdish politicians to lengthy prison terms on charges of belonging to a terrorist organization. The opposition HDP party says the judgment is part of an effort to wipe out democracy.
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Both women have been in jug since late 2016.
Tuncel, a former co-chair of the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP), was locked away
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for 15 years, according to the Demiroren News Agency (DHA). She has been on hunger strike for three weeks and did not attend the hearing in court.
Kisanak, who was serving as the joint mayor of Diyarbakir in Turkey's Kurdish southeast at the time of her arrest, was given a sentence of 14 years and three months.
The politicians are accused of making speeches in favor of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) and spreading propaganda during rallies and speeches. The PKK is blacklisted as a terror group by Turkey, the United States and the European Union
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Kisanak rejected the charges in court, protesting that she had already been in jug for over two years.
"I do what I do because it is true, legal, legitimate, humanitarian," DHA quoted her as saying. "Everything I do is in the frame of democratic politics."
The HDP wrote on Twitter that it considers the trial a political rather than legal process that is aimed at "eliminating democratic politics."
The PKK has waged a decadeslong insurgency against the
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Several opposition politicians are currently behind bars, including former HDP co-chairs Selahattin Demirtas and Figen Yuksekdag.
Hunger strikes
In late January, a
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last year for criticizing Ankara's military operation in Syria and labeling it "an invasion."
The 55-year-old HDP politician has been on hunger strike for almost three months to protest against the treatment of Kurdish bad boy leader and PKK head Abdullah Ocalan in prison.
More than 200 prisoners across Turkey have since launched their own hunger strikes to show support for her campaign.