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Two Kurds arrested accused of burning the Turkish
flag
Kurdistan (Turkey), Oct 29 - Two Kurds,
the 16-year-old R.K. and his father Kemal K., were
arrested by Turkish police in the Barbaros district
of Adana on Thursday, accused of burning the Turkish
flag.
R.K.'s 15-year-old brother H.K. was also arrested,
but later released. A call was made to R.K.'s father
by the Turkish police to notify him of the arrest.
The father was also arrested when he arrived at the
police station.
The Turkish flag which R.K. and his father are
accused of burning, was found in the school yard of
the Kenan Evren Elementary School on Thursday
morning by school officials. No further details were
given by Turkish police officials in the matter.
Protests in Kurdistan and Turkey against the
isolation of Ocalan
Kurdistan (Turkey), Oct 28 - Kurds rallied in
several cities in Kurdistan and Turkey to protest
the isolation of the Kurdish national leader
Abdullah Ocalan by Turkish military prison
authorities in the Solitary Military Isolation
Prison on the island of Imrali.
Kurdish youth in Nisebin (Nusaybin) closed the roads
to traffic with Molotov cocktails, chanting slogans
in favour of Ocalan and the Kurdish resistance
movement PKK.
A group of 100 Kurdish youth in the Barbaros
district of Seyhan in Adana also closed the roads to
traffic, unfolding banners with slogans as 'Kurdish
Youth Let's Go To Botan, For a Free Homeland',
'Isolation is War' and 'Long Live Leader Apo [Ocalan].
Locals in the district supported the demonstration,
which lasted for over an hour. Police never arrived
to the street which locals have named 'Newroz
street'.
1,000 Kurds in Van rallied in the Akköprü district
lighting up bonfires and chanting slogans in favour
of Ocalan and the PKK. The demonstration lasted for
an hour.
Young Kurds gathered in the Yenimahalle district of
Kiziltepe in Mardin lit up tires, protesting the
isolation of Ocalan. The group chanted slogans as
'Long Live Leader Apo', 'You will not live in a
world without Ocalan' and 'Whether in war or in
peace, we are with you Ocalan'.
More protests are planned by Kurdish activists in
northern Kurdistan (southeastern Turkey).
Turkish military operations meet fierce
resistance by HPG
Kurdistan (Turkey), Oct 29 (DozaMe.org) -
Turkish soldiers conducting military operations in
northern Kurdistan (southeastern Turkey) are meeting
fierce resistance in the mountains by Kurdish HPG
guerrillas. October month have dealt the Turkish
soldiers blow after blow, leaving them paralyzed and
unsuccessful before the winter break.
Turkish military forces have failed to harvest
success in operations conducted against the Kurdish
guerrillas in the provinces of Bitlis, Van, Hakkari,
Dersim, Siirt, Sirnak, Mus, Amed (Diyarbakir),
Bingol and Mardin. Expected drop in clashes have
occurred in the provinces of Qers (Kars), Agiri (Agri),
Erzurum, Erzincan, Sivas, Giresun, Trabzon, Elazig,
Maras and Urfa, as the Turkish military concentrates
on areas which they suspect that HPG has for the
first time since 1999 set up long-time strategical
strongholds.
HPG has also announced a sharp increase of recruits
joining the ranks of the HPG guerrillas. Over 1,000
new guerrillas have been graduated from HPG's Mahsum
Korkmaz Military Academy in 2005. The numbers are
expected to double or triple in the end of 2006 if
the current flow of new recruits continue.
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