from Daily Sabah
Turkish authorities on Saturday arrested 17 suspects linked to the
terrorist group PKK, including five members of the pro-PKK Green Left
Party (YSP).
Nazlı Binici, the head of YSP’s Suruç branch, as well as four other
Suruç city council members belonging to YSP, a doctor and a teacher,
were among the 17 suspects detained in raids across three districts of
southeastern Şanlıurfa province last Wednesday.
The suspects were accused of operating as two separate groups within
the PKK, with one surveilling and reporting on police stations and
security checkpoints while the other was preparing for assassination
against security forces under direct orders from so-called top members
of the terrorist group, authorities said.
The YSP is informally known as the Peoples' Equality and Democracy
Party (DEM Party) and is a successor of the Peoples’ Democratic Party
(HDP). The party rebranded as YSP after last year’s May elections to
skirt a Constitutional Court lawsuit seeking its permanent closure over
alleged links to the PKK. It later tried to change its name to the
Peoples' Equality and Democracy Party (Dem Party), but the courts
rejected the request...
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