Turkey cracks down on the 'parallel' Kurdish administration
Thousands of officials, political militants, academics and NGO workers have been rounded up and many end up in prison
A group of Kurdish women surrounded by children jostled their way into the basement courtroom of the sixth high criminal court in Diyarbakir, "capital" of the Kurdish region of Turkey. A Turkish policeman pushed them towards the benches at the back and barked at them to sit down.
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