The sanction for the arrest of leader and two MPs of the dissolved Kurdish Democratic Society Party was authorised. According to Turkish Haberler website, the trial on former party leader Ahmet Turk will take place in Istanbul court, Emine Ayna – in Adana and Sallahatin Demirtas — in Diyarbekir. All three Kurdish party leaders are accused of “agitation in favor of terrorist organization.”

December 28, Turkish law enforcers intruded into the office of newly established Peace and Democracy Party but failed to arrest the MPs as they were away.

NEWS.am recalls that in the course of October 2008 parliamentary discussions on Armenia-Turkey Protocols, MP Sallahatin Demirtas accused Turkish authorities of distorting the facts on Armenian Genocide in Turkish textbooks.

Rumor has it that Ahmet Turk’s grandfather was Armenian and changed surname to avoid suppression. Under Turkish Constitutional Court decision, Turk is banned from politics for 5 years.

A.G.