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Kurdish leader held

By REUTERS
February 26, 2018

BEIRUT/ANKARA: The main Syrian Kurdish political party said on Sunday that one of its leaders had been arrested in Prague at the behest of Turkey, where a court has charged him with sedition. Saleh Muslim, a top Kurdish politician, has "full citizenship rights" as a Syrian national and was visiting Europe in an official capacity, the PYD party said. In a statement, the party accused the Turkish state of "demanding the arrest of individuals who are not its citizens ... without any legal justifications". Turkey has been seeking Muslim after a Turkish court charged him with "breaking the state and country’s unity" and other offences.