by TurkeyPurge | May 29, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
Pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) Siirt deputy Besime Konca, who was released by a Batman court on May 3 after spending five months in pre-trial detention and again detained on Monday at Batman Airport due to an arrest warrant issued by another Batman court...
by TurkeyPurge | Dec 13, 2016 | Human Rights Abuses, Today in Crackdown, Torture
Besime Konca, a deputy from the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) who was detained on Monday night and released on probation on Tuesday morning, was detained again on Tuesday evening. Another HDP deputy, Çağlar Demirel, was also detained along with Konca on...
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