Academic among today's BDP arrests in Istanbul
Academic among today's BDP arrests in Istanbul
Professor Büþra Ersanlý, has been detained in Istanbul today along with nearly 70 BDP (Peace and Democracy Party) members. The arrests have been carried out in the ongoing operation against the Kurdish Communities Union (KCK).
Ersanlý, a political science professor at Marmara University, is a member of the BDP party assembly and has a seat on the party's charter preparation commission, which is working toward drafting a new constitution.
BDP co-chair Selahattin Demirtaþ reacted harshly to the detentions, asking for the immediate release of all detainees, including Ersanlý, saying the detentions continued "on the prime minister's bidding. We want universal justice to act, not the government's justice," he said.
Demirtaþ added that it was "becoming impossible to discuss about the new constitution. There will not be any staff left - he added - in the BDP to appoint to the Parliament's charter commission if the detentions continue."
Ersanlý, a political science professor at Marmara University, is a member of the BDP party assembly and has a seat on the party's charter preparation commission, which is working toward drafting a new constitution.
BDP co-chair Selahattin Demirtaþ reacted harshly to the detentions, asking for the immediate release of all detainees, including Ersanlý, saying the detentions continued "on the prime minister's bidding. We want universal justice to act, not the government's justice," he said.
Demirtaþ added that it was "becoming impossible to discuss about the new constitution. There will not be any staff left - he added - in the BDP to appoint to the Parliament's charter commission if the detentions continue."
