A new wave of repression against members, supporters and leaders of the HDP is rolling on in Turkey. After hundreds of detentions in the past few days, numerous people from the structures of the democratic opposition have been detained.
In Turkey, a new stage in the political campaign of destruction against the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) is emerging. After hundreds of political detentions were recorded in the past few days, the wave of repression continued on Monday. So far, there is talk of 18 detained members, supporters and leaders in the western provinces of Manisa and Tekirdağ. It is feared that this number could increase.
In Tekirdağ, numerous flats were stormed simultaneously in different districts of the port city west of Istanbul. The police were brutal, doors were broken open with a battering ram. At least seven people were taken away without giving any reason and brought to the local police headquarters. They are Azad Özanli, Muhammed Sosa, Kenan Gözmen, Tayfun Sağdıç, Hakan Güzel, Adem Akdoğan and Ahmet Polat.
In Manisa, there have also been unjustified raids with subsequent arrests. Eleven people from the local HDP structures were taken into custody, including the co-chairperson of the district association in Saruhan as well as Kadriye Karagöz, Fırat Daşkın and İbrahim Halil Mungan, members of various district executive committees in Manisa. Here, too, the detainees are being held at police headquarters.
