Turkish court upholds jail sentence for pro-Kurdish lawmakerANKARA: Turkey’s Court of Appeal has upheld a prison sentence for a pro-Kurdish lawmaker and activist. A two-and-a-half-year jail term is being sought for Omer Faruk Gergerlioglu, who is also a member of a parliamentary commission responsible for monitoring human rights violations and has consistently drawn attention to allegations of rights abuses. Gergerlioglu is a deputy in the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), which the government accuses of having links with the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party. Thanks to my dad, I have been immersed in the struggle for defending human rights from my childhood. I owe him a lot.”Salih founded the Movement of the Others with friends who felt alienated in Turkish society because of reasons connected to their identities.

Source: Ethiopian News February 20, 2021 06:57 UTC