Kurdish Leader Is Arrested in Prague at Turkey’s Request
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Kurdish Leader Is Arrested in Prague at Turkey’s Request
Adam Uzur, an official with the Kurdistan National Congress in Vienna, said
that Mr. Muslim had been arrested at his hotel in Prague, the Czech capital, where he was speaking against Turkey’s invasion of the Kurdish enclave of Afrin, in northwestern Syria.
25, 2018
A senior Kurdish official from Syria was detained in the Czech Republic on Sunday under an extradition
request from Turkey, according to the Czech police and the official Anadolu News Agency in Turkey.
In a recent phone interview from Brussels, where he is based, Mr. Muslim rejected Turkish claims
that the Kurds’ Syrian organizations in Rojava, or northern Syria, were fronts for the P.K.K.
"Our wish is, God willing, for the Czech Republic to hand over him to Turkey,
and justice prevails." A statement issued by Mr. Muslim’s organization, the Movement for a Democratic Society, denounced the arrest.
"To the Turks, the best Kurd is a dead Kurd." Last month, Turkey launched an offensive in Afrin
and threatened to carry its fight against Syrian Kurds into Manbij and areas farther east where American troops are stationed, which the United States military vowed to resist.
The official, Salih Muslim, is the foreign affairs spokesman for the political coalition
that governs the Kurdish regions of northern Syria, the Movement for a Democratic Society.
Adam Uzur, an official with the Kurdistan National Congress in Vienna, said
that Mr. Muslim had been arrested at his hotel in Prague, the Czech capital, where he was speaking against Turkey’s invasion of the Kurdish enclave of Afrin, in northwestern Syria.
25, 2018
A senior Kurdish official from Syria was detained in the Czech Republic on Sunday under an extradition
request from Turkey, according to the Czech police and the official Anadolu News Agency in Turkey.
In a recent phone interview from Brussels, where he is based, Mr. Muslim rejected Turkish claims
that the Kurds’ Syrian organizations in Rojava, or northern Syria, were fronts for the P.K.K.
"Our wish is, God willing, for the Czech Republic to hand over him to Turkey,
and justice prevails." A statement issued by Mr. Muslim’s organization, the Movement for a Democratic Society, denounced the arrest.
"To the Turks, the best Kurd is a dead Kurd." Last month, Turkey launched an offensive in Afrin
and threatened to carry its fight against Syrian Kurds into Manbij and areas farther east where American troops are stationed, which the United States military vowed to resist.
The official, Salih Muslim, is the foreign affairs spokesman for the political coalition
that governs the Kurdish regions of northern Syria, the Movement for a Democratic Society.