"Hapšenjima tokom zadnjih par mjeseci prethodili su ogromni pritisci na političke aktiviste tokom zadnje dvije i po godine," naglašava Aliza Marcus, diplomant sa škole Macarthur i autor djela Krv i uvjerenje: PKK i borba Kurda za nezavisnost, dodajući da "je u zadnje dvije godine privedeno i zatvoreno više od 2.000 ljudi."
"The arrests over the past few months were preceded for the past two and a half years by enormous political pressure on political activists," notes Aliza Marcus, Macarthur fellow and author of Blood and Belief: The PKK and the Kurdish Fight for Independence, adding that "upwards of 2,000 people have been detained and imprisoned in the past two years."