Families' sit-in against PKK continues in SE Turkey

DIYARBAKIR, Turkey

Months have passed since mothers in southeastern Turkey launched a sit-in protest demanding that a terrorist-linked political party free their children from the YPG/PKK terror group, but their determination remains afresh.

Dozens of mothers started the protest on Sept. 3 outside the Diyarbakir offices of the People’s Democratic Party (HDP), a party accused by the government of having links to the YPG/PKK terror group.

Zumrut Salim, one of the mothers, said her son Hamza was abducted by the terror group six years ago when he was just 14 years old and she will not go home until her

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