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50 Pro-Kurdish DTP Executives arrested in
Turkey
20.4.2006
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Pro Kurdish Democratic Society Party (DTP) calls
roundup of 50 party executives "unlawful and
arbitrary". Five of those arrested are provincial
chairman and nine are district chairman. The
arrested are accused of implication in guerrilla PKK
activity.
BIA (Ankara) April 19, - Turkey's pro-Kurdish
Democratic Society Party (DTP) announced that the
number of party executives places under arrest
throughout the country had reached 50 and branded
the crackdown on its ranks as "unlawful and
arbitrary".
"In an environment where Turkey enters an election
atmosphere we regret the attacks and detentions
stemming from the Prime Minister's attitude of
showing our party as a target" a written statement
by the DTP Executive Board said.
The statement noted that unlawful and arbitrary
practices against party executives and mayors were
on the increase and said party buildings were being
raided, executives being detained and arrested after
PM Recep Tayyip Erdogan and other state officials
made the DTP a target.
Arbitrary practices concerning
The DTP stated that five provincial and nine
district party chairmen were among the 50 DTP
executives arrested so far and said this practice
cast shadows on the democratic future of Turkey.
The statement said arbitrary practices would not
defer the DTP from its democratic political struggle
and warned against attempts to remove Diyarbakir
Mayor Osman Baydemir from his seat, warning that the
consequence of such an act would be to pour oil on a
burning fire.
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