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Turkey: 11 Kurdish DTP Executives Arrested 5.9.2006
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Diyarbakir court arrests 11 executives of
pro-Kurdish Democratic Society Party including
provincial chairman Avci after police storm party
headquarters in Siirt. Politicians accused of aiding
the outlawed PKK organization and conducting
propaganda.
DIYARBAKIR, Kurdistan-Turkey, September 4, --
A Diyarbakir court has placed 11 executives of the
pro-Kurdish Democratic Society Party (DTP) under
arrest following an August 31 police raid on the
party headquarters in nearby Siirt province.
Provincial Chairman Murat Avci was also among those
sent to prison.
After the detained politicians were taken to the
Diyarbakir High Criminal Court from Siirt, they were
remanded to prison accused of aiding the Kurdistan
Workers Party (PKK) and conducting organizational
propaganda.
The raid was conducted after a hunger strike was
launched at the Siirt DTP headquarters in protest of
a 20-day cell confinement penalty imposed on PKK's
imprisoned leader Abdullah Ocalan who is being held
at a special military prison on Imrali Island.
Searching the premises for approximately 5 hours,
police seized a number of books and documents
alongside placards and posters. The 11 DTP
executives were then detained on grounds of
possession of illegal documents
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The use of the term "Kurdistan" is vigorously
rejected due to its alleged political implications
by the Republic of Turkey, which does not recognize
the existence of a "Turkish Kurdistan".
Others estimate as many as 40 million Kurds live in
Big Kurdistan (Iraq, Turkey, Syria, Iran, Armenia),
which covers an area as big as France, about half of
all Kurds which estimate to 20 million live in
Turkey
The Kurdish flag flown in Iraqi Kurdistan but
unofficially flown by Kurds in Armenia. The flag is
banned in Iran, Syria, and Turkey where flying it is
a criminal offence"
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