Just 10 days before the crucial elections that will determine Turkey’s future, the Green Left Party helps to transport quake victims to their ballot boxes, the jailed former Peoples’ Democratic Party Co-chair expressed support for the opposition’s joint candidate Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, and electoral bans began today.
In the run-up to the elections, house raids and arrests of members of Turkey’s pro-Kurdish and left-wing opposition bloc, the Labour and Freedom Alliance, have continued, with prosecutors in several provinces launching investigations.
Sweden’s adoption of a new anti-terror law criminalising “handling equipment, organising activities or being responsible for transport for a terrorist organisation”, a key demand from Turkey to approve Stockholm’s NATO membership bid, raises concerns about its potential impact on the Kurdish community and fundamental rights.
A young Kurdish street musician was killed in Istanbul over refusing to play an ultra-nationalist Turkish anthem. Cihan Aymaz was a volunteer for the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party and was facing trial for singing a protest song.
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