{"id":12991,"date":"2024-10-01T10:03:11","date_gmt":"2024-10-01T09:03:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mesopotamia.coop\/?p=12991"},"modified":"2024-10-01T10:03:12","modified_gmt":"2024-10-01T09:03:12","slug":"wave-of-repression-against-kurdish-language-associations-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mesopotamia.coop\/wave-of-repression-against-kurdish-language-associations-continues\/","title":{"rendered":"Wave of repression against Kurdish language associations continues"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Two more people were taken into custody as part of the wave of repression against Kurdish language institutions. This brings the total number of people in custody from Kurdish cultural and language organizations to 31.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/mesopotamia.coop\/mehmet-asena-we-will-protect-our-language\/\">wave of repression<\/a> against the Kurdish language continues. While the owner of the Pay\u00eez Pirt\u00fbk library in Amed, Cihat G\u00fcney, was released, two more people were arrested. This brings the number of people in custody as part of the proceedings against language associations in <a href=\"https:\/\/mesopotamia.coop\/cities\/amed-diyarbakir\/\">Amed<\/a> (tr. Diyarbakir) to 31.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On 24 September, the Turkish police raided the Association for the Study of Languages \u200b\u200band Cultures of Mesopotamia (MED-DER), the Pay\u00eez Pirt\u00fbk bookstore, and the<a href=\"https:\/\/mesopotamia.coop\/coops\/anka-language-and-art-education-cooperative\/\"> Cooperative for Education in Language and Art<\/a> (ANKA) in Amed. At the same time, the homes of many employees of these institutions were searched on the orders of the Diyarbak\u0131r Chief Public Prosecutor&#8217;s Office. The office has apparently been conducting an investigation into this since 2022. Books, magazines and digital materials were confiscated during the raids. A confidentiality order was issued on the investigation. Those arrested are being held in the Diyarbak\u0131r Police Department&#8217;s Terrorism Department. Cihat G\u00fcney, the owner of Pay\u00eez Pirt\u00fbk, was released after giving a statement to the public prosecutor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>More arrests and transfers<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Two more arrests were made on Wednesday evening. ANKA teacher Mehmet Salin Temel and <a href=\"https:\/\/jinhaagency.com\/en\/actual\/jineology-magazine-editor-in-chief-rojda-yildiz-detained-in-amed-35724\">Rojda Y\u0131ld\u0131z<\/a> from the editorial board of <a href=\"https:\/\/mesopotamia.coop\/tag\/jineoloji\/\">Jineoloj\u00ee<\/a> magazine are now also in custody. Meanwhile, the period of detention for those arrested since 24 September has been extended. According to lawyers&#8217; reports, Belk\u0131s S\u00fcleymano\u011flu, who was taken into custody in Izmir, was also taken to the anti-terror police in Amed. \u015eehriban Aylu\u00e7tarhan was taken into custody in Istanbul.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two more people were taken into custody as part of the wave of repression against Kurdish language institutions. This brings the total number of people in custody from Kurdish cultural and language organizations to 31.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12992,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[252],"tags":[309],"class_list":["post-12991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-democracy","tag-jineoloji"],"acf":[],"wps_subtitle":"This report was published by <a href=\"https:\/\/anfenglishmobile.com\/culture\/wave-of-repression-against-kurdish-language-associations-continue-75491\">ANF English<\/a> on 26 September, 2024","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mesopotamia.coop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mesopotamia.coop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mesopotamia.coop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mesopotamia.coop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mesopotamia.coop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12991"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mesopotamia.coop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12994,"href":"https:\/\/mesopotamia.coop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12991\/revisions\/12994"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mesopotamia.coop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mesopotamia.coop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mesopotamia.coop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mesopotamia.coop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}