FOTO: DIYARBAKIR, (DHA)
The co-mayor of the southeastern district of Lice has been sent to jail pending trial on terrorism charges, a news report said on Sunday.
Harun Erkuş, a politician from the pro-Kurdish Democratic Regions Party (DBP), was detained on July 30 along with five others in Lice, a district of Diyarbakır, in connection with a series of road blocking incidents and attacks on the security forces on the Bingöl-Diyarbakır highway that are believed to have been carried out by the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK). The six suspects were detained on charges of “membership of a terrorist organization, road blocking for terrorism purposes, setting vehicles to fire and collective resistance to the security forces” in an operation by gendarmerie forces and police special operations teams.
Erkuş and another suspect, Abdullah Hocaoğlu, were sent to a Diyarbakır prison, while the remaining four people were released, the private news agency Doğan said.
More than 1,300 people were detained in police operations against the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) and the far-left Revolutionary People’s Liberation Army/Front (DHKP/C) late in July, along with the Turkish government pursuing aerial strikes against PKK and ISIL targets in Iraq and Syria. An overwhelming majority of the detained were those suspected to have links with the PKK.
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