800 Kurdish Politicians Arrested in One Year

Yaman from DTP: 800 Kurdish Politicians Arrested in One Year

Peace and Democracy Group Chairman Yaman said: “The AKP government takes revenge by arresting mayors of the provinces they did not win in the elections”. He urged the government to stop the operations.

Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) Group Chairman Nuri Yaman said in the party’s regular weekly general meeting that almost 800 Kurdish politicians were arrested in the course of political operations throughout the last year. Yaman reminded the latest incident when Nuri Günes, Mayor of Igdir (a province on the Armenian border) was arrested together with another seven people, among them members of the city council. “The Justice and Development Party (AKP) takes revenge by arresting the mayors of the provinces they did not win in the elections”, Yaman argued.
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