Kurdish man arrested in Turkey for saying ‘Kurdistan’

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ERBIL, Kurdistan Region – Turkish police detained a Kurdish tradesman on Friday after he referred to his city as part of “Kurdistan” during an argument with a nationalist politician. He is accused of making propaganda for the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK).

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• “Our language, identity, and Kurdistan are being denied. We are against this. We do exist! The people currently present here are all Kurds and the place you are standing on is called Kurdistan. But unfortunately, Kurdistan is denied in the parliament,” he told her in video published by state media.

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