{"id":29795,"date":"2010-12-31T04:45:39","date_gmt":"2010-12-31T02:45:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishforum.com.tr\/en\/content\/?p=29795"},"modified":"2023-04-06T13:29:29","modified_gmt":"2023-04-06T10:29:29","slug":"kurdish-politician-from-turkey-requests-asylum-in-greece","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2010\/12\/31\/kurdish-politician-from-turkey-requests-asylum-in-greece\/","title":{"rendered":"Kurdish politician from Turkey requests asylum in Greece"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_29796\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-29796\" style=\"width: 414px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-29796\" title=\"kurdish-politician-requests-asylum-in-greece-2010-12-29\" src=\"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/kurdish-politician-requests-asylum-in-greece-2010-12-29.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"414\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/kurdish-politician-requests-asylum-in-greece-2010-12-29.jpg 414w, https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/kurdish-politician-requests-asylum-in-greece-2010-12-29-300x217.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 414px) 100vw, 414px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-29796\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mustafa Sar\u0131kaya was a deputy chairman of the now-defunct pro-Kurdish Democratic Society Party, or DTP. AA photo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>December 29, 2010<\/p>\n<p>A Kurdish politician whose party was dissolved by Turkey\u2019s Constitutional Court last year has requested <strong>asylum in Greece<\/strong> after his arrest at Thessaloniki Airport, local police said Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Mustafa Sar\u0131kaya, 46, was detained last week after airport police found <strong>a fake passport<\/strong> among his belongings and charged him with illegal entry, Agence France-Presse reported.<\/p>\n<p>But the former deputy chairman of the now-defunct pro-Kurdish Democratic Society Party, or DTP, was released after persuading a court that his life was in danger in Turkey, where he has spent a total of 20 years in prison.<\/p>\n<p>Sar\u0131kaya was traveling from Paphos in Greek <strong>Cyprus<\/strong> to Sofia, <strong>Bulgaria<\/strong>\u2019s capital, the AFP report said.<\/p>\n<p>The Constitutional Court, Turkey&#8217;s top court, ruled in December 2009 that the DTP should be shut down because of alleged links to the outlawed Kurdistan Workers\u2019 Party, or PKK. The PKK is listed as a terrorist organization by Turkey, the United States and the European Union.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"removed_link\" title=\"http:\/\/www.hurriyetdailynews.com\/n.php?n=kurdish-politician-requests-asylum-in-greece-2010-12-29\"><\/span>, December 29, 2010<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>December 29, 2010 A Kurdish politician whose party was dissolved by Turkey\u2019s Constitutional Court last year has requested asylum in Greece after his arrest at Thessaloniki Airport, local police said Wednesday. Mustafa Sar\u0131kaya, 46, was detained last week after airport police found a fake passport among his belongings and charged him with illegal entry, Agence [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":29796,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[217,15,225,89],"tags":[1280],"class_list":["post-29795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bulgaria","category-cyprus","category-greece","category-turkey","tag-pkk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29795\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}