Posted on 03/29/2018 6:53:48 AM PDT by Cronos
A Turkish man has been sentenced to prison on charges of membership of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) on the basis of his identity card showed his religion as Zoroastrian, Turkish newspaper Evrensel said.
The case began in 2006, at which time Yücel Delek was a student at Niğde University. He was taken into custody on suspicion of having attended a PKK-linked protest, but was acquitted the following year after the university provided evidence he had been attending a class at the time.
The case was re-opened in 2013. This time he was not so lucky. The evidence against him was based on the fact that he changed the religion recorded on his identity card to “Zorastrianism” in 2010. A court in Adana decided that Delek had made this change in order to become a PKK member.
Following the ruling Delek was sentenced to more than six years in prison and sent to serve his time in a jail in Turkey’s eastern province of Mardin.
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That ancient religious practice predates all the major religions...most likely a kangaroo court bent on a velvet glove kind of genocide...
...they can’t have the bad press of another Armenian bloodbath.
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