Turkey’s “IS” crackdown revives Kurdish conflict
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“If anything, the police are focused more on Kurds than on IS right now,” said Ertugrul Kurkcu, a deputy of the Kurdish-rooted Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP). Kurkcu said that 627 HDP members had been detained in anti-terror raids as of June 26. “This includes 30 party administrators. 395 of our members are still in custody, and 19 have been [formally] charged with crimes,” he said.
A DW survey of Turkish media found 94 IS-related detentions over the same time period.The HDP, which shares the PKK’s nationalist roots but formally disavows violence, found itself excluded this week from anti-terror briefings that Turkey’s Defense Ministry plans to hold with the country’s opposition parties.