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May 9th, 2017 
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nsnbc : Turkish police raided the Belge Publishing House in Istanbul over alleged links to the outlawed DHKP-C and seized some 2,170 books.
The raid took place in Istanbul on May 7. Police raided the publishing house due to alleged links to the outlawed Revolutionary People’s Liberation Party-Front (DHKP-C) in the Fatih district’s Cagaloglu neighborhood.
Police claimed that it raided and searched the publishing house because they had received a complaint that some books did not have a banderole. Police also stated they had an order to seize the books entitled “Stateless Kurds” and “Decisions Tougher than Death” off the shelf.
In addition, police officers reportedly seized hundreds of other books from the 1980s and 1990s even though they did not have an explicit order to do so. Mehmet Ali Varis, an employee at Belge Publishing House was briefly detained after police had seized the books, but he was released later.
The Belge Publishing House was founded by Ragıp Zarakolu and Ayse Zarakolu in 1977 and published books mostly about politics, economics, philosophy and human rights. Ayse Nur Zarakolu received the International Publishers Association (IPA) Freedom of Thought prize in 1998, while Ragıp Zarakolu received the IPA Freedom to Publish Award in 2008.
Ragıp Zarakolu was arrested in 2011 as part of an operation on Kurdistan Communities Union (KCK), the umbrella organization of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), before being released in April 2012.
The Publishing House has repeatedly been accused of alleged links to the DHKP-C. Although this does not involve all of its members and structures, the DHKP-C has according to many intelligence insiders and independent analysts long been infiltrated by networks linked to networks within Turkish and NATO intelligence circles.
Several of the group’s actions, such as the hostage taking of prosecutor Mehmet Selim Kiraz in 2015 – allegedly carried out by DHKP-C members who then were shot dead, appear to substantiate this assumption.
Linking the Belge Publishing House to the DHKP-C may in the eyes of many Turk’s “justify the raid” that otherwise would have been perceived as “one more violation of fundamental rights in Turkey”.
CH/L & F/AK – nsnbc 08.05.2017
Source Article from https://nsnbc.me/2017/05/08/turkish-police-raided-belge-publishing-house-over-alleged-links-to-dhkp-c-seized-2170-books/
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