According to the state agency Anadolu, 10 would be local representatives of the Kurdish Kurdish party Hdp who were arrested by the Turkish anti-terrorism police, in an operation against the members of the PKK, on charges of "propaganda in favor of terrorist organization through social media "and to have provided" logistical support and refuge "to suspected members of terrorist organizations.
Recall that the PKK, Kurdistan Workers' Party, it is a formation of the extreme left but with modern ideas open to feminism and ecology, which has chosen the armed struggle for the independence of Kurdistan. It is not just a territorial question: it is above all the political vision so open to worry the current Turkish president, advocate of the recent Islamization of the country.
Among those arrested, there would also be Fikret Baskaya, a university professor and Turkish writer, of 77 years, who would be taken from his home around the local 6.30 in the morning.