A Turkish court has in a retrial sentenced Ayşe Gökkan, a former mayor and prominent Kurdish women’s rights advocate, to more than 19 years in prison on terrorism-related charges, the Mezopotamya news agency (MA) reported. The Diyarbakır 9th High Criminal Court convicted Gökkan of membership in the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) and ordered that she remain in prison to serve her sentence, rejecting prosecutors’ request for her release p…
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