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PRO-KURDISH PARTY CHAIRMAN SENTENCED TO SIX-MONTH IMRPISONMENT FOR
USING "HONOUR
PRO-KURDISH PARTY CHAIRMAN SENTENCED TO SIX-MONTH IMRPISONMENT FOR
USING "HONOURABLE OCALAN" EXPRESSION
ANKARA, MARCH 7, NOYAN TAPAN - ARMENIANS TODAY. The judge of one of
the courts of the Turkish city of Diarbekir made a decision on
sex-month imprisonment towards Ahmed Turk, the Chairman of the
"Democratic Turkey Party." The reason is that Turk used the
"honourable Ocalan" expression when speaking about Abdullah Ocalan,
the Chairman of the Labour Party of Kurdistan considered a terrorist
party in Turkey.
As Turkish Daily News states, the judge emphasized that Turk obviously
expressed words of praise addressed to Ocalan and that it is
"incoherent for a party head whose words influence on the society."
To recap, Ahmed Turk stated during the event organized in the hall of
the Diarbekir theater on January 18 of the current year: "During this
period of time when we do everything for the arms keep silence and
issues are solved with peaceful means, it it noticed that the
society's anxiety more deepens on the occasion of the policy of
isolution carried on against Ocalan."
USING "HONOUR
PRO-KURDISH PARTY CHAIRMAN SENTENCED TO SIX-MONTH IMRPISONMENT FOR
USING "HONOURABLE OCALAN" EXPRESSION
ANKARA, MARCH 7, NOYAN TAPAN - ARMENIANS TODAY. The judge of one of
the courts of the Turkish city of Diarbekir made a decision on
sex-month imprisonment towards Ahmed Turk, the Chairman of the
"Democratic Turkey Party." The reason is that Turk used the
"honourable Ocalan" expression when speaking about Abdullah Ocalan,
the Chairman of the Labour Party of Kurdistan considered a terrorist
party in Turkey.
As Turkish Daily News states, the judge emphasized that Turk obviously
expressed words of praise addressed to Ocalan and that it is
"incoherent for a party head whose words influence on the society."
To recap, Ahmed Turk stated during the event organized in the hall of
the Diarbekir theater on January 18 of the current year: "During this
period of time when we do everything for the arms keep silence and
issues are solved with peaceful means, it it noticed that the
society's anxiety more deepens on the occasion of the policy of
isolution carried on against Ocalan."