{"id":19576,"date":"2026-02-20T15:59:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T15:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/19576\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T15:59:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T15:59:10","slug":"turkey-detained-99-minors-over-protests-linked-to-syria-offensive-pro-kurdish-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/19576\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkey detained 99 minors over protests linked to Syria offensive: pro-Kurdish party"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <a href=\"https:\/\/stockholmcf.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/march.webp\" data-caption=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"348\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=\" http:=\"\" data-lazy- data-lazy- alt=\"\" title=\"march\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/march-696x348.webp.webp\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"348\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/march-696x348.webp.webp\"   alt=\"\" title=\"march\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Turkey\u2019s main pro-Kurdish party said Thursday that police had detained at least 99 minors in January over protests tied to a Syrian government offensive targeting Kurdish-led forces in northeast Syria, calling for a parliamentary investigation, Agence France-Presse reported.<\/p>\n<p>In a petition to parliament\u2019s Human Rights Inquiry Commission, eight lawmakers from the pro-Kurdish Peoples\u2019 Equality and Democracy Party (DEM Party) said at least 99 minors were detained in connection with the protests. The party said 25 of them were arrested by a court.<\/p>\n<p>The DEM Party said prosecutors opened investigations on suspicion of \u201cdisseminating the propaganda of a terrorist organization\u201d in social media posts that the party said should be protected under freedom of expression rules.<\/p>\n<p>The party cited the case of a 16-year-old detained in \u0130zmir over a hair-braiding video and a song posted online. The DEM Party said the teen was subjected to a strip-search at the city\u2019s juvenile detention facilities.<\/p>\n<p>Hair braiding became a symbolic gesture of solidarity with Syrian Kurds last month as Damascus pressed an offensive in northeastern Syria to reassert its authority, sparking protests among Kurds in Turkey.<\/p>\n<p>During the Syria operation, social media carried clips of women braiding their hair in response to a video showing a Syrian soldier holding a braid he claimed to have cut from a Kurdish woman fighter, a claim that could not be independently verified.<\/p>\n<p>Turkish authorities responded with a crackdown on such posts.<\/p>\n<p>The DEM Party alleged some minors were barred from seeing a lawyer for 24 hours, suffered physical violence during detention, were questioned without legal representation present and were pressured to sign documents. It also alleged some were subjected to strip-searches when entering detention facilities, were insulted and had their hair cut without consent.<\/p>\n<p>In the northwestern town of Kocaeli, a nurse was detained on grounds of spreading \u201cterrorist propaganda\u201d but was later released under judicial supervision.<\/p>\n<p>Amedspor, a football club from the predominantly Kurdish city of Diyarbak\u0131r, was fined 802,500 Turkish lira, nearly $18,500, for \u201cideological propaganda\u201d after posting a 20-second braiding clip on its social media accounts. The Turkish Football Federation also imposed a 15-day suspension from all football activity on the club\u2019s president.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Turkey\u2019s main pro-Kurdish party said Thursday that police had detained at least 99 minors in January over protests&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19577,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[83],"tags":[13664,13665,312,13666,2911,131,132,2048,2914,155],"class_list":["post-19576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-stockholm","tag-arrested-minors","tag-hair-braiding-protest","tag-human-rights","tag-human-rights-inquiry-commission","tag-peoples-equality-and-democracy-party-dem-party","tag-stockholm","tag-sweden","tag-syria","tag-syrian-kurds","tag-turkey"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19576","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=19576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19576\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}