Infighting within the major alliance of six Turkish opposition parties over the role of the country’s largest pro-Kurdish group has the ruling party palpably gleeful.
Turkish police raided the homes of members and officials of the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) and the headquarters of an art association on Monday, detaining 36 on terrorism charges, local media reported.
Kemal Kilicdaroglu, leader of Turkey’s main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP), visited the justice vigil held by Emine Senyasar and her family in front of the courthouse in the southeastern Sanliurfa province on Thursday.
The United States expects Turkey to launch a “thorough investigation” into the killing of a Kurdish family in Konya, a U.S. State Department spokesperson told Esta Media Network on Sunday.