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Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) co-founder Sakine Cansiz who was one of three found dead in 2013
KURDISH political prisoner Gultan Kisanak remained behind bars today after a judge refused her release on the grounds that she once shared a cell with the co-founder of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK).
Lawyers argued she should be freed from pre-trial detention, with the former mayor of Diyarbakir having spent five years in prison on trumped-up terrorism charges.
But the request was denied, along with that of 21 others in the so-called Kobane case against leading members of the opposition Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), on the grounds that the defendants were a flight risk.
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)
