Left-wing party leader arrested in Turkey amid expanding crackdown on opposition

A Turkish court on Wednesday ordered the pretrial detention of Sezin Uçar, a lawyer and deputy co-chair of the Socialist Party of the Oppressed (ESP), as part of an ongoing investigation targeting the left-wing party on terrorism-related charges, Turkish media reported. Uçar was detained at İstanbul Airport on Monday upon returning from abroad and was […] The post Left-wing party leader arrested in Turkey amid expanding crackdown on opposition appeared first on Stockholm Center for Freedom.

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