{"id":12081,"date":"2026-02-13T16:54:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T16:54:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/12081\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T16:54:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T16:54:07","slug":"turkish-mp-raises-allegations-of-strip-search-of-16-year-old-arrested-over-social-media-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/12081\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkish MP raises allegations of strip-search of 16-year-old arrested over social media post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <a href=\"https:\/\/stockholmcf.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Screenshot-2026-02-13-at-5.19.46-PM-scaled.png\" data-caption=\"Photo: DEM Party Youtube channel\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"402\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Screenshot-2026-02-13-at-5.19.46-PM-696x402.png\"   alt=\"\" title=\"Screenshot 2026-02-13 at 5.19.46\u202fPM\"\/><\/a>Photo: DEM Party Youtube channel<\/p>\n<p>A Turkish opposition lawmaker has told parliament that a 16-year-old girl arrested on charges of \u201cdisseminating\u201cterrorist propaganda\u201d in a social media video was subjected to a strip-search and alleged mistreatment at a high-security prison, the Bianet news website <a href=\"https:\/\/bianet.org\/haber\/cocuga-yapilan-ciplak-arama-meclis-gundeminde-316675\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Burcug\u00fcl \u00c7ubuk, a member of parliament from the Peoples\u2019 Equality and Democracy Party (DEM Party), raised the case on Thursday in the general assembly, citing allegations that the teenager was strip-searched upon arrival at the \u015eakran High-Security Prison in western Turkey.<\/p>\n<p>\u00c7ubuk said she visited the prison earlier this week and later learned from the family that the detainee had been strip-searched. The lawmaker also noted that a court had rejected an appeal of the arrest order, stating that the ruling found \u201cno procedural or legal violation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The girl, identified only by the initials A.K, was arrested on February 6 after posting a video of herself braiding her hair and sharing songs on social media, according to her attorney, Edhem Kuru\u015f, who also said his client was physically assaulted during intake procedures.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors allege that the post constituted propaganda for the outlawed Kurdistan Workers\u2019 Party (PKK), while Kurus said the content was part of a broader online solidarity campaign and argued that the arrest of a minor over social media activity raised concerns about proportionality, children\u2019s rights and freedom of expression.<\/p>\n<p>The arrest came amid a wave of online posts in which women shared videos of themselves braiding their hair, a gesture linked to a campaign that began last month after a video circulated from the Syrian city of Raqqa showing a man holding up a woman\u2019s cut braid and claiming it belonged to a fighter from the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF). The claim could not be independently verified but sparked an online backlash and campaign of solidarity across several countries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Photo: DEM Party Youtube channel A Turkish opposition lawmaker has told parliament that a 16-year-old girl arrested on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12082,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[83],"tags":[423,9329,425,9330,426,312,427,428,429,431,131,132,9331],"class_list":{"0":"post-12081","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-stockholm","8":"tag-akp","9":"tag-burcugul-cubuk","10":"tag-democracy","11":"tag-edhem-kurus","12":"tag-erdogan","13":"tag-human-rights","14":"tag-justice","15":"tag-law","16":"tag-oppression","17":"tag-rule-of-law","18":"tag-stockholm","19":"tag-sweden","20":"tag-the-peoples-equality-and-democracy-party-dem-party"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12081\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}