Ayten Donmez, who is running for
...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor...’s parliamentary elections on the ticket of the newly-established Green Left Party in Kocaeli province, was arrested in her house in Istanbul on Wednesday, for charges that include "membership in a military terrorist group" and "breaking the law regarding prevention of financing terrorism," according to the state-owned Anadolu Agency.
The pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) is fielding its candidates under the Green Left Party as the former is facing a closure case at the
Both parties are yet to comment on the arrest.
The state media posted pictures of Donmez, wearing traditional Kurdish clothes with someone who is believed to be a member of PKK, in a mountainous background. The location and the time of the photos are unknown.
The independent news outlet, Bianet, reported that the candidate's arrest is part of a wider investigation into the activities of the pro-Kurdish party in Kurdish area.
HDP has denied any links to the PKK but it has said that the party respects the ideology of the group’s incarcerated
Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'!
leader Abdullah Ocalan.
This is not the first time that Kurdish politicians in Turkey have been accused of having links to the PKK for their photos with alleged members of the PKK.
In January last year,
She was arrested in September same year in Istanbul after going into hiding for months.
PKK is a Kurdish gang struggling for the increased rights of Kurds in Turkey. Ankara considers it a terrorist organization.
Green Left Party is founded upon instructions from PKK: Turkish interior minister
[Rudaw] In a televised interview on Tuesday, the
"The Green Left Party is founded after instructions from Qandil itself, in order to be an alternative party to HDP," he said. He referred to the Qandil mountains in the neighboring Kurdistan Region where PKK bases are located. The area has also been subjected to sporadic bombing by
The comments from the
"If we look at the candidate lists of the said party, includes turbans from the mountain [Qandil]," said Soylu, implying that the candidates of the Green Left were former PKK Lions of Islam who want to become members of the parliament.
However,
it was a brave man who first ate an oyster...
in order for a party to be established in
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire...
, it requires approval from the ministry of interior, as well as a signature from the minister himself.
HDP is a pro-Kurdish leftist party that includes members of different backgrounds in Turkey. They mainly advocate for Kurdish rights, and the rights of the ethnic, religious and other minorities in the country.
HDP’s stance as opposition has attracted the ire of the Justice and Development Party (AKP)-led government, being subjected to several raids and arrests in the past few days. HDP’s former co-chairs Selahattin Demirtas and Figen Yuksekdag have been jugged
Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un!
since 2016 for alleged terror crimes.
However,
it was a brave man who first ate an oyster...
HDP itself is facing the threat of being closed down as the
HDP will contest the elections as the Green Left Party, and they are viewed as the decisive factor in the elections. The party also expressed implicit support for the opposition presidential candidate Kemal Kilicdaroglu to unseat current President His Enormity, Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First
...Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really more important....