Veteran Kurdish politician Ahmet Turk joins list of arrested MPs

Prominent Kurdish politician Ahmet Turk was arrested in Turkey on Monday. He is one of the longest serving Kurdish MPs in Turkey, elected six times since the 1970s and heTurk is the co-mayor of the Kurdish city of Mardin

 

Turkish security forces blocked a delegation from the German Socialist Party from visiting Turk in prison.

 

Turk has now joined a number of prominent Kurdish politicians and MPs arrested by security forces in November on charges of conducting propaganda activities for the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK).