UK Parliament Debates Turkey Crackdown on HDP, Calls on Govt to Address It

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• UK Parliament debates Turkey's crackdown on pro-Kurdish HDP party. Issues underlined the repression of representatives and the increased severity of violence directed at the Kurdish community. Parliament called on the UK govt to hold Ankara accountable for the crackdown and address the situation
• Ultranationalist youth group TGB "hoods" US soldiers in Istanbul on Tuesday by putting sacks over the heads of soldiers leaving the US Navy's 6th fleet warship and publishing a photo on social media.
  • The group claimed this was a response to the 2003 hood incident in northern Iraq . activists chanted "Yankee go home" in protest of US support for the YPG, the declaration of the 10 envoys on Kavala and a response to the tensions in the East Med
• MHP leader Bahceli says he will send his officials all over Turkey to expose the CHP-HDP alliance as the real face of the opposition in the 2023 election campaign – saying the party has drifted from its roots.
  • Says the MHP will target the 131 areas where the CHP polled the strongest to share its position against the fight on terrorism
• Istanbul mayor imamoglu (CHP) attends Glasgow climate summit in Erdogan's place after he said the summit failed to meet his security demands -