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Retired Turkish army officers plans a provocative
march in Amed
NEWSDESK, Oct 13
- Retired Turkish officers from TESUD (Retired
Officer's Association of Turkey) is planning to
carry out a demonstration in the Kurdish capital of
Amed (Diyarbakir) in northern Kurdistan
(southeastern Turkey) on the 'Republic's Holiday' on
October 29.
The association has named their march "Republic's
march from all parts of the nation to Diyarbakir"
which will start with a gathering in Istanbul on
October 26 and from there move to Ankara. On October
27, the association will go to Elazig in northern
Kurdistan and on the same day move on to Malatya.
TESUD is planning to arrive in Amed on October 28
and stay there for the Turkish 'Republic's Holiday'
on October 29.
TESUD's march is seen as a provocative demonstration
with the purpose to answer the September 4 Gemlik
March which was organized by DEHAP and several other
Kurdish NGOs from northern Kurdistan (southeastern
Turkey). The Gemlik March was blocked by Turkish
authorities and the Kurdish demonstrators were
stopped at strategic cities and towns with a
majority of Turkish nationalists. The Kurdish
demonstrators were then attacked and beaten up by
thousands of nationalists for over six hours until
the Turkish police were ordered to move in and stop
the massacre.
AKP and DEHAP in Amed is opposing the march while
the Turkish ultra-nationalist MHP is supporting it.
HPG: The captured police officer is safe and well
NEWSDESK, Oct 13
- A Turkish police officer that was captured by
Kurdish HPG guerrillas in a road block on the
Midyat-Idil freeway in northern Kurdistan
(southeastern Turkey), is safe and well according to
a statement by the HPG Press and Liaison Center (HPG-BIM).
The guerrilla road block was set up on October 9 at
1700 (5 pm EEST) where the HPG guerrillas checked ID
of drivers of 70 cars. Among them were Hakan Açil
(27), a Turkish police officer from Eskisehir
assigned to Cizre in northern Kurdistan. The police
officer was off-duty and had visited his
girlfriend's family in Malatya.
The police officer was captured by the HPG
guerrillas and is now in an unknown location. The
family of Açil told reporters that they had high
hopes that Hakan Açil would be released by the
Kurdish guerrillas.
No captured members of the Turkish security forces
have ever been executed by Kurdish guerrillas.
According to sources close to the PKK, the police
officer is expected to be released but no date was
mentioned.
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