by TurkeyPurge | Jan 28, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
The pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) deputies Hüda Kaya and Meral Danış Beştaş were detained early on Saturday as part of the crackdown against Turkey’s Kurdish political movement. According to a tweet posted by HDP Adana deputy Beştaş, a group of police...
by TurkeyPurge | Dec 28, 2016 | Anti-Kurdish, Hate Speech, Human Rights Abuses
Pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) deputy Hüda Kaya claimed in a parliamentary commission that an imam in İstanbul called on people to take up arms against the HDP and also approved the killing of Kurds, calling them infidels. Speaking at the Constitution...
by TurkeyPurge | Dec 8, 2016 | Today in Crackdown
Following the arrest of 10 deputies from the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) last month, Turkish police detained Hüda Kaya, another lawmaker from the party, on Thursday. Kaya was detained in İstanbul and was being taken to İstanbul Courthouse in Çağlayan,...
by TurkeyPurge | Nov 7, 2016 | Torture
Muhammed Cihad Saatçioğlu, the son of pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) deputy Hüda Kaya was hospitalized with spinal fractures after, according to many, being beaten during interrogation at a police station in İstanbul’s Kadıköy district. Saatçioğlu was...
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