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TURKEY’S opposition Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) MP Leyla Guven warned on Saturday that women being held as political prisoners — many on trumped-up terror charges — have been tortured.
Ms Guven, who was herself jailed for opposing Turkey’s illegal war and occupation of Afrin in northern Syria last year, alerted the Morning Star to brutal attacks in the all-female Bakirkoy Prison.
The HDP MP for Hakkari, in Turkey’s largely Kurdish south-east, started a hunger strike last year in protest against the continued isolation of Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) leader Abdullah Ocalan that spread across Turkish prisons.
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)
