70:(PKK), which is prohibited in Turkey, but he views to have returned the Kurds their pride for their identity as Kurds. As the head of the Diyarbakir branch of the DTP, he aimed for similar rights for the Kurds which the Scots, the Catalans or Basques have which are an official recognition as a people, a regional government and parliament. After he attended a funeral of militants of the PKK which is an illegal organization in Turkey, he was arrested in April 2006. He defended himself that he attended the funeral in order to calm the crowd. He was released pending trial in July the same year. In 2008 he was sentenced to 10 months imprisonment for terror related charges, with the court reasoning that he also stayed when the crowd began to show symbols of the PKK, a decision he appealed. After the appeal court also confirmed the sentence, he appealed to the
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