Turkish Police continue arresting Kurds

December 24, 2009 - 21:30 AMT
PanARMENIAN.Net - Turkish police have arrested dozens of pro-Kurdish party members in a series of coordinated raids in the south-east of the country, Euronews reports.



Forty-two members of the Democratic Society Party, the DTP have been reportedly held in the crackdown aimed at breaking an urban network of the militant, separatist Kurdistan Workers' Party the PKK.



The DTP was banned by Turkey's Constitutional Court earlier this month because of its ties with the PKK - designated a terrorist organisation by the Turkish government, the European Union and the United States, says the report.



The ban sparked days of unrest in the mainly Kurdish south-east of the country. The ruling was also opposed by Turkey's Prime Minister Recip Tayyip Erdogan who recently launched an initiative to improve Kurds' rights.
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