Turkey: Sit-in protesters want their kids back from PKK

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.

Kamile Kucukdag, a mother from southern Adana province, said her son Engin was kidnapped 5 years ago when he was 15 and that she will continue the protest until she is reunited with her

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