Former Kurdish mayor sentenced to 19 years in retrial on terrorism charges

A Turkish court has in a retrial sentenced Ayşe Gökkan, a former mayor and prominent Kurdish women’s rights advocate, to more than 19 years in prison on terrorism-related charges, the Mezopotamya news agency (MA) reported. The Diyarbakır 9th High Criminal Court convicted Gökkan of membership in the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) and ordered that […] The post Former Kurdish mayor sentenced to 19 years in retrial on terrorism charges appeared first on Stockholm Center for Freedom.

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