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The Grand Turk
Kurdish jailed politician granted rare family visit in Turkey
2022-05-04
[Rudaw] The wife of Kurdish jugged
... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not...
politician Selahattin Demirtas said on Tuesday that she was allowed by Ottoman Turkish authorities to visit her husband nearly half a year after their last meeting.

Basak Demirtas said in a tweet that her husband was "strong and in high morale as usual."

She last visited the Kurdish politician on November 12.

Demirtas is the former co-chair of the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP). He was jugged
... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not...
on November 4, 2016 for alleged links to the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK). He has also been accused of having a role in the death of 108 people during 2014 protests across Kurdish-majority areas in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire...
in support of the Kurdish city of Kobane in Syria after it was besieged by the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
(ISIS).

Basak Demirtas said in a televised interview in October that her children "have been unable to hug their father for 19 months."

Her latest visit was on the occasion of Eid al-Fitr, with her wishing this to be her "last Eid visit to the prison."

Tens of thousands of HDP members, officials and politicians have been arrested over the last decade, with numbers spiking after a failed coup attempt in July 2016 blamed on a former ally of President His Enormity, Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First
...Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than there are in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really most important...
. Most have been jugged
... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not...
for terror charges.
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Selahattin Demirtas: 2021-07-17 Erdogan's revenge: Turkey since failed 2016 coup
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