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Sinn Fein president Mary Lou McDonald
SINN FEIN leader Mary Lou McDonald has written to Turkey’s ambassador to Ireland voicing her alarm after a criminal complaint was filed against exiled Kurdish politician Osman Baydemir .
Authoritarian President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was angered over the former People’s Democratic Party (HDP) MP for speaking out against Turkey’s invasion of Syria at a 20,000-strong London rally on Sunday.
Mr Baydemir — who already faces 117-years in jail in Turkey — referred to Mr Erdogan, asking the crowds: “Who is a terrorist, who is a dictator? Who kills the Kurds? Who kills children and women?”
CLAUDIA WEBBE looks at how Britain’s Nato ally has upped the stakes in its effort to silence domestic dissenting voices
VIJAY PRASHAD details how US support for Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa allowed him to break the resistance of the autonomous Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF)
The independent TD’s campaign has put important issues like Irish reunification and military neutrality at the heart of the political conversation, argues SEAN MacBRADAIGH
