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Calls for solidarity as 48 socialists detained by Turkish security services in dawn raids
Members of Turkey's Socialist Party of the Oppressed
LEFTWINGERS in Turkey remained defiant today after 48 members of Figen Yuksekdag’s Socialist Party of the Oppressed (ESP) were detained in dawn raids across 12 provinces.
Those taken into custody included ESP co-chair Ozlem Gumustas and journalist Pinar Gayip, who works for the party’s ETHA news agency.
Security service personnel raided the agency’s offices in Istanbul, stealing cash, smashing equipment and seizing computer hard drives.
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