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| Turkey arrests 23 more over anti-government protests: Report |
| 2013-06-23 |
[Al Ahram] Turkish authorities tossed in the clinkMaw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! 23 more people on Saturday over their alleged role in this month's anti-government protests, accusing them of acting on behalf of a far-left "terrorist" group, a news report said. A court in the capital accused them of helping to organise the protests and engaging in violence in the name of the Communist Marxist-Leninist Party (MLKP), CNN-Turk said on its website. Another three were released but placed under judicial supervision, the report said. Interior Minister Muammer Guler said the operation had been planned for about a year against the "terrorist" (MLKP), but that the suspects were also implicated in the protests, the most violent since Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's Islamist-rooted government came to power in 2002,. Prosecutors could not immediately confirm the arrests, which follow a sweep last Tuesday against far-left groups in Ankara and Istanbul and bring to at least 47 those tossed in the calaboose Into the paddy wagon wit' yez! over the protests that grew from a peaceful demonstration on 28 May. |
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