by TurkeyPurge | May 30, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
A Turkish prosecutor issued a detention warrant for pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) Şanlıurfa deputy and spokesperson Osman Baydemir, according to Turkish media reports on Tuesday. It was not immediately clear on which charges the detention warrant was...
by TurkeyPurge | Jan 25, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
The Peoples’ Democracy Party (HDP) deputies Osman Baydemir and Ahmet Yıldırım were detained on Wednesday as part of the crackdown against Turkey’s Kurdish political movement. Earlier on Wednesday, HDP deputies Mehmet Emin Adıyaman and İmam Taşçıer were detained. All...
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