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2020-11-21 The Grand Turk
Turkey Orders Arrest of 101 over Alleged PKK Links
[AnNahar] Ottoman Turkish authorities have issued arrest warrants for 101 people including lawyers in a wide-scale operation aimed at outlawed Kurdish murderous Moslems, a judicial source said on Friday.

Police conducted simultaneous raids in Diyarbakir, in the Kurdish-majority southeast, Istanbul, Izmir and Adiyaman as part of an investigation into the Democratic Society Congress (DTK).

The group is accused of links to the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).

The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire...
and its Western allies designate the PKK a terror group. It has waged an insurgency against the state since 1984 which is believed to have killed tens of thousands.

Police rounded up at least 72 suspects, including 24 lawyers, the source, who spoke on condition of anonymity, told AFP.

Four others could not detained as they had tested positive for the coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague)
...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men...
, the source said.

The Diyarbakir bar association condemned the latest arrests, which targeted 17 of its members.

"The Diyarbakir bar has never bowed to the threat of detentions and arrests and will never do so," it said in a statement on Twitter.

"These operations indicate a desire to stifle the voice of the Diyarbakir bar and is a direct intervention in the activities of the civil society."

The opposition pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party
...every time you hear the phrase white people, white supremacy, white anything but paint, you're listening to a Democrat. Ask him/her/it to reimagine something for you; they do that a lot, though not well. They can hear a dog whistle a mile or two away. They invented the spoils system and Tammany Hall, and inspired the addition of the word (Thomas) Nasty to the English language. They want to stop continental drift and repeal the law of unintended side effects...
(HDP) has also been on the radar of Ottoman Turkish authorities for its alleged links to the PKK and dozens of its mayors -- elected in the 2019 local elections -- have been ousted.

The HDP is Turkey's second-largest opposition group in the parliament.
Posted by trailing wife 2020-11-21 00:06|| || Front Page|| [11136 views ]  Top
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#1 Must be running out of Gulenists.
Posted by Mullah Richard 2020-11-21 08:17||   2020-11-21 08:17|| Front Page Top

#2 They rotate the crop, as it were: Gulenists, Kurds, military coup-ists, and then round again.
Posted by trailing wife 2020-11-21 16:14||   2020-11-21 16:14|| Front Page Top

#3 Well, at least they don't have any White Supremacists.
Posted by Bobby 2020-11-21 16:51||   2020-11-21 16:51|| Front Page Top

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