{"id":2876,"date":"2016-10-28T15:20:25","date_gmt":"2016-10-28T15:20:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/?p=2876"},"modified":"2016-10-28T15:20:25","modified_gmt":"2016-10-28T15:20:25","slug":"crowe-calls-for-release-of-the-co-mayors-of-diyarbakir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/crowe-calls-for-release-of-the-co-mayors-of-diyarbakir\/","title":{"rendered":"Crowe calls for release of the Co-Mayors of Diyarbakir"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sinn F\u00e9in\u2019s Foreign Affairs spokesperson, Se\u00e1n Crowe TD, has criticised the arrest of the co-Mayors of the city of Diyarbakir, the capital of the Kurdish region in the southeast of Turkey.<\/p>\n<p>Deputy Crowe:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cI want to wholeheartedly condemn the arrest of the Kurdish political representatives G\u00fcltan Kisanak and Firat Anli, the co-Mayors of Diyarnakir. These latest arrests are part of a co-ordinated Government crackdown on the political opposition and various elements of civil society in Turkey.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c22 elected co-mayors are currently imprisoned in Turkey and 33 more have been removed from their executive roles. The anti-democratic policies of the Turkish government are completely unjust, unacceptable, and pushing the country further along the path to a dictatorship.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am calling on the Turkish Government to end its repressive tactics and release the 22 co-Mayors it has imprisoned, including G\u00fcltan Kisanak and Firat Anli\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sinn F\u00e9in\u2019s Foreign Affairs spokesperson, Se\u00e1n Crowe TD, has criticised the arrest of the co-Mayors of the city of Diyarbakir, the capital of the Kurdish region in the southeast of Turkey. Deputy Crowe: \u201cI want to wholeheartedly condemn the arrest of the Kurdish political representatives G\u00fcltan Kisanak and Firat Anli, the co-Mayors of Diyarnakir. These [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[134,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kurds","category-turkey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2876"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2877,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2876\/revisions\/2877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}