Turkey: Another family joins sit-in against YPG/PKK

DIYARBAKIR, Turkey

Another family on Thursday joined an ongoing protest by families in southeastern Turkey against YPG/PKK terrorists.

The protest started in September in Diyarbakir province when a mother, Fevziye Cetinkaya, said her underage son had been forcibly recruited by YPG/PKK terrorists with the help of members of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), a party accused by the government of having links to the terrorist group.

Since then, the number of protesting families has been growing, as they demand the return of their children, who, they say, were deceived or kidnapped by PKK terrorists.

Mehmet Aytekin came from eastern Elazig

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