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| Turkish court rejects requests to free Kurdish lawmakers |
| 2013-12-17 |
| [Pak Daily Times] A Turkish court on Monday rejected bids by two Kurdish politicians to be released from lengthy pre-trial detention, a move that could undermine confidence in a fragile grinding of the peace processor with Kurdish bully boys. The decision by the court in Diyarbakir, the regional centre of Turkey's mainly Kurdish southeast, came despite the country's top court ruling this month that the lengthy detention of another MP pending trial was unconstitutional. Gulser Yildirim and Ibrahim Ayhan, members of parliament for the pro-Kurdish Peace and Democracy Party (BDP), were tossed in the calaboose Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! in 2010 on charges of having links to the bully boy Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) and are still being held pending verdicts in their trials. Ankara began peace talks with the PKK - designated a terrorist group by Turkey, the United States and the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... - more than a year ago to try to end a three-decade conflict which has killed more than 40,000 people. A ceasefire has largely held since March and the government has proposed a package of limited reforms aimed at bolstering democracy, but PKK commanders have warned of fresh violence unless the process moves forward. |
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