HDP Nursel Aydoğan sentenced 5 years supporting PKK

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Nursel Aydogan, member of HDP was sentenced to 4 years 8 months for acting on behalf of PKK

A member of the Turkish parliament was sentenced to four years and eight months in prison for acting on behalf of Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) designated as a terrorist organization in Turkey, local media reported on Friday.

Nursel Aydogan, a member of pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), who was charged with aiding the terrorist organization without being its member, denied the allegations, according to Anadolu news agency.

Aydogan was reportedly arrested in November 2016 for refusal to testify at counter-terrorism investigations.

Tensions between Ankara and the Kurds escalated in July 2015 when a ceasefire between Turkey and the PKK collapsed because of a series of terror attacks allegedly committed by PKK members. The Kurds are currently living in parts of Turkey, Iran, Iraq and Syria. In Turkey, the Kurds represent the largest ethnic minority, and are striving to create their own independent state.

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Nursel Aydoğan (born 17 November 1958, Yenişehir, Bursa, Turkey), is a Turkish politician of the Peace and Democracy Party (BDP), currently MP for Diyarbakir.