Turkey’s PKK suspicion|According to the Stockholm Center For Freedom, President Erdoğan’s re-election in last year’s elections has strengthened authoritarian rule in Turkey and increased pressure on government critics.
Turkey the Kurdish woman arrested last week is still in custody, says the daughter of the arrested person.
“I haven’t been able to get in touch with him myself, but the lawyer has kept in touch through the lawyer,” the daughter, who lives in Finland, tells STT.
HS interviewed the daughter last week.
The daughter does not know for sure how the mother is mentally. That’s why the concern is strong.
“Mom says she’s doing well so it wouldn’t be so difficult for me. Even though he says he’s fine, I don’t know how he’s doing in reality.”
Last week, several Turkish media reported that Turkey had arrested a Kurdish woman whom Turkey considers to be leading the branch of the Kurdish PKK organization in Finland. The woman has Finnish citizenship.
The movement, built in 1978 on the basis of the ideas of Kurdish nationalism and Marxism-Leninism, has been classified as a terrorist organization in the United States and the EU. However, both the Kurds and some courts, for example, have taken a critical view of the classification The EU Court in its decision in 2008.
Daughter says that he also has no clear information about how the investigation is progressing.
“At the moment, he (the lawyer) says that we are waiting for the indictment. After that, the trial would begin.”
There is no information about that either, the mother will have to wait a long time in pre-trial detention.
“He (the lawyer) says that he cannot and does not know how to give me any time limit. It could take weeks, it could take days, it could take months.”
The daughter says that the lawyer said that the practices of the legal process can vary in Turkey, especially when a person is detained who is suspected of political reasons.
The mother’s arrest came as a complete surprise to the daughter.
It has been reported in the Turkish media that the woman is suspected of, among other things, supplying funds to the PKK, coordinating the organization’s members, and organizing the PKK’s activities and events in Finland.
According to the daughter, the mother will deny the now public accusations until the end of the process.
“What the Turkish media claims is absolutely not true. My mother went on vacation,” emphasizes the daughter.
The daughter says that the lawyer told her that the mother’s case is not the only one of its kind.
“He said he is not at all surprised by the accusations and the news. Kurdish identity makes a person suspicious from the start.”
Daughter says that he has followed the human rights situation in Turkey closely and knew that the situation was serious.
“In a way, you knew that there are thousands of people in prisons and that they are there for no good reason. But it would never have occurred to me that the fact that a person exercises his own basic rights in Finland could lead to such a situation in Turkey.”
The daughter states that her mother participated in Kurdish-related demonstrations and events in Finland, celebrated the Kurdish New Year and wore a Kurdish dress. According to STT’s information, the arrested woman is apparently quite well-known among the Kurds in Finland.
“They all happened in Finland, and they are not crimes. I would have understood if the mother had participated in the demonstration in Turkey, but she went on vacation.”
So why travel to a country where you know you can be imprisoned?
“It can be hard to understand, but spiritually it is really important to my mother. In Finland, his life revolves almost exclusively around work, and the longing to see relatives and acquaintances is huge. This is a basic need and should be a basic right, but unfortunately it doesn’t seem to be the case,” sums up the daughter.
to Sweden of the fugitive journalists Stockholm Center For Freedom by president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan re-election in May 2023 and the victory of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) in parliamentary elections have consolidated authoritarian rule in Turkey and increased pressure on government critics.
The organization is particularly focused on the situation in Turkey.
According to the organization, many journalists, human rights defenders and opposition politicians have been accused of terrorism without valid evidence.
Turkey was ranked 117th in the World Justice Project’s (WJP) rule of law index out of 142 countries. WJP’s rule of law index is one of the most significant and widely used rule of law indicators.
According to human rights organizations, in Turkey you can be arrested or prosecuted in connection with the PKK on lighter grounds than, for example, in Europe.
“The label of a terrorist is so easy to get. Almost anyone who demonstrates their opinion and has raised human rights issues can be on the terrorist list in Turkey,” says the daughter of the imprisoned woman.
According to the daughter, the Turkish government wants to strengthen the Turkish people’s sense of security through arrests.
“They want to show how important the Turkish government is doing. That look,” without this government you would all be in danger.
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