TURKISH POLICE CONTINUE ARRESTING KURDS

PanARMENIAN.Net
24.12.2009 21:30 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Turkish police have arrested dozens of pro-Kurdish
party members in a series of coordinated raids in the south-east of
the country, Euronews reports.

Forty-two members of the Democratic Society Party, the DTP have been
reportedly held in the crackdown aimed at breaking an urban network
of the militant, separatist Kurdistan Workers’ Party the PKK.

The DTP was banned by Turkey’s Constitutional Court earlier this month
because of its ties with the PKK – designated a terrorist organisation
by the Turkish government, the European Union and the United States,
says the report.

The ban sparked days of unrest in the mainly Kurdish south-east of
the country. The ruling was also opposed by Turkey’s Prime Minister
Recip Tayyip Erdogan who recently launched an initiative to improve
Kurds’ rights.