WOMEN opposing the Turkish government were targeted again today as police took at least six into custody during raids in Ankara and Istanbul on spurious anti-terror allegations.

The operation took place as part of investigations initiated by the Ankara Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office against those accused of “being members of an illegal organisation.”

This is often used to target the opposition Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) which the authoritarian Turkish government of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan brand as terrorists linked to the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), despite its status as a legal political party.