NORTH KURDISTAN, — Military operations of Turkish army in Kurdistan is accompanied and bolstered by waves of arrests and incarceration of Kurdish politicians and intellectuals.
Seventeen students have been arrested in Dersim, Urfa and Erzincan. In Dersim five students have been taken into custody, in Urfa six and in Erzincan seven.
All of the students are thought to have been taken into custody in the context of the KCK (Kurdish Communities Confederation) operation.