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2021-06-12 The Grand Turk
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Turkish appeals court upholds lengthy prison sentence for Kurdish politician
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An interim step before the Turkish supreme court called, in the French style, the Court of Cassation. [Rudaw] A Ottoman Turkish appeals court on Friday upheld a lengthy prison sentence of more than 22 years for a prominent Kurdish politician over alleged links to the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), a pro-Kurdish news outlet reported.
Leyla Guven, a former politician for the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), was stripped of her parliamentary membership in June 2020 and later sentenced to 22 years and three months in jail for allegedly being a member of the PKK and propagating for the group.
She had appealed to the Regional Court of Justice on the grounds that her sentence was unfair, demanding a reversal of the ruling. However,
some men learn by reading. A few learn by observation. The rest have to pee on the electric fence for themselves...
the court rejected her application, upholding the local court’s decision, according to Mezopotamya News Agency.
Guven, 57,can appeal the ruling by filing an appeal with the Court of Cassation, according to the pro-Kurdish news outlet.
She launched a 200-day hunger strike in 2018 in a bid to end tossed in the slammer
Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out!
Kurdish leader Abdullah Ocalan's isolation by securing him access to his family and lawyers. She is also the co-chair of the Democratic Society Congress (DTK) - an umbrella group which consists of lawyers, civil society organizations, political parties and human rights
...which are usually open to widely divergent definitions...
activists.
The PKK is an gang fighting for the increased rights of Kurds in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
 ...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire...
. It is considered a terrorist organization by Ankara. Some Ottoman Turkish officials claim that HDP and its sister groups like DTP have links with the PKK, leading to a crackdown which has put thousands of members and officials behind bars. 
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