{"id":1588,"date":"2026-02-06T18:45:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T18:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/1588\/"},"modified":"2026-02-06T18:45:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T18:45:08","slug":"number-of-arrests-in-turkeys-left-wing-crackdown-rises-to-77","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/1588\/","title":{"rendered":"Number of arrests in Turkey\u2019s left-wing crackdown rises to 77"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <a href=\"https:\/\/stockholmcf.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/ESP.jpg\" data-caption=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"450\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=\" http:=\"\" data-lazy- data-lazy- alt=\"\" title=\"ESP\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/ESP-696x450.jpg\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"450\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/ESP-696x450.jpg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"ESP\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A Turkish court on Friday <a href=\"https:\/\/sendika.org\/2026\/02\/esp-operasyonunda-gozaltina-alinan-23-kisi-daha-tutuklandi-hakimlik-sorgulari-suruyor-742108\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ordered the arrest<\/a> of 30 additional people in an investigation targeting the left-wing Socialist Party of the Oppressed (ESP), expanding a crackdown that has so far led to 77 arrests.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Sendika.org news website, the \u0130stanbul Criminal Magistrate of Peace ruled that 16 other detainees be released pending trial out of 46 people referred to the court.<\/p>\n<p>Among those detained ETHA reporter M\u00fcsl\u00fcm Koyun was arrested, while fellow journalist Z\u00fcleyha M\u00fcld\u00fcr was released pending trial.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday 47 people, including ESP members and journalists, were <a href=\"https:\/\/stockholmcf.org\/turkish-court-orders-arrest-of-47-people-including-left-wing-opposition-members-and-journalists\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">arrested<\/a> as part of the same investigation. The individuals had been\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/stockholmcf.org\/turkey-detains-dozens-in-sweeping-operation-targeting-left-wing-groups\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">detained<\/a>\u00a0during police raids carried out on February 3 in 23 provinces.<\/p>\n<p>The police operations were conducted amid widespread demonstrations in Turkey protesting the Syrian army\u2019s offensive on Kurdish-held northeastern Syria. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Northeastern Syria is largely controlled by the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), which have been a key US ally in the fight against Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).<\/p>\n<p>Ankara views the Kurdish People\u2019s Protection Units (YPG), which dominate the SDF, as an offshoot of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers\u2019 Party (PKK), a group that has waged an armed insurgency against Turkey since 1984. The conflict has claimed more than 40,000 lives, and the group is designated as a terrorist organization by Turkey and its Western allies, including the European Union and the United States.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Turkish court on Friday ordered the arrest of 30 additional people in an investigation targeting the left-wing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1589,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[83],"tags":[2031,147,312,2032,149,429,2033,153,131,132,155,2034],"class_list":{"0":"post-1588","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-stockholm","8":"tag-crackdown-on-opposition","9":"tag-etkin-news-agency-etha","10":"tag-human-rights","11":"tag-journalist-muslum-koyun","12":"tag-left-wing-political-groups","13":"tag-oppression","14":"tag-press-freedom","15":"tag-socialist-party-of-the-oppressed-esp","16":"tag-stockholm","17":"tag-sweden","18":"tag-turkey","19":"tag-zuleyha-muldur"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1588","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=1588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1588\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}