23 Kurds arrested in Adana, Turkey by the Turkish government

 23 people were taken into custody in the course of police operations carried out on Wednesday morning. The operations were carried out simultaneously at different places of Adana, a city on the south-eastern tip of the Mediterranean.

Police said the 23 detained people supposedly attended commemoration events held in Adana for Turkish leftist revolutionaries. On 18 May, it was the 38th anniversary of the death of İbrahim Kaypakkaya, founder of the Communist Party of Turkey/Marxist Leninist (TKP/ML). Kaypakkaya died in 1973 in the Diyarbakır Prison after he had been tortured. The people taken into custody are also alleged of having attended an event on 6 May marking the 39th anniversary of the execution of Marxist-Leninist revolutionary Deniz Gezmiş and his companions Hüseyin İnan and Yusuf Arslan in 1972.

Various non-governmental organizations and democratic mass organizations protested the operations in a press release issued in Adana the same day.

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