Turkey Ramps Up Pressure on Kurdish Party With New Arrests
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Turkey’s chief prosecutor ordered 91 people detained on charges of links to outlawed Kurdish militants, escalating pressure on the main Kurdish party ahead of next year’s election.
Police have so far rounded up 46 of the suspects, including some former municipal officials from the pro-Kurdish People’s Democratic Party, or HDP, the state-run Anadolu Agency said. They are accused of financing the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, which seeks Kurdish autonomy in Turkey’s southeast, according to the prosecutor’s office.