In the last couple of days, PKK attacked police headquarters in Kurdish populated towns. Diyarbakır, Van and today Bitlis and Elazığ. Pro-AKP columnists are quick to explain rising number of attacks with conspiracy theories- as usual: One line of ideas is that, now that coup attempt failed, another plot against Turkey by imperial forces by using Kurdish guerrillas on the play. Well, I am sure there are some behind-the-doors plots. It is the game of international relations. But explaining anything with conspiracy theories is a dangerous logical fallacy. Turkish suffers so hard after the coup attempt that there is a very clear security problem in Turkey in general. PKK has an unexpected opportunity to step up attacks. I am not sure whether this serves PKK or not. There is also an increasing number of civilian casualties during these attacks… Life is getting harder day by day…
Renowned author Asli Erdogan briefly hospitalized after being detained for having ties to banned paper Ozgur Gundem. https://t.co/Oa52oJNHDQ
— Louis Fishman لوي فيشمان לואי פישמן (@Istanbultelaviv) August 18, 2016
PEN International is very concerned about the detention of Aslı Erdoğan, a renowned novelist, columnist and human rights activist, in Turkey following a police raid into her apartment. Her arrest comes alongside more than 20 other
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