Police Antiteror Kurung 34 Activist Kiri

ISTANBUL, Tekertin.com - Turkish anti-terror police shut 34 people on Tuesday (05/10/2011), in a dawn attack in Istanbul that targeted to groups suspected of having links with a militant left-wing movement is not valid.

The attack was ordered just a month before the Turkish vote in the election of board members are expected to result in victory and third term in a row for Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan and Development Party, known as the AK Party.

Among those detained, according to Dogan news agency and state-owned Anatolia news agency, the three musicians, all Yorum activist left-wing group.

Police have launched three attacks almost simultaneously in the office of Freedom and Human Rights Organization Okmeydani and Idil Cultural Center, which is used by the Group Yorum. A lawyer for the detainees told Dogan that they allegedly have links with left-wing movement called DHKP-C.

DHKP-C was blamed for suicide attacks in 2001 that killed two policemen and a tourist in Taksim Square in central Istanbul.

Some critics, citing the background of leaders like Erdogan, the AK intends to postpone worrying about the traditional secularism of modern Turkey.

Others liken the party with the Muslim version of European Christian Democrats, the liberal in economic issues and conservative on social issues.

The arrest of journalists in recent months because of suspected links to an alleged network of militant secularists, so-called Ergenekon, has raised concerns about press freedom in Turkey a candidate for EU membership.

Hundreds more people have been detained without trial related to a widespread investigation into Ergenekon, which began in 2007.

There was support initially in the investigation of the Turkish people who were tired of seeing elected government was overthrown by a military coup, but support was dropped when doubts arise about whether prosecutors have used their power to silence criticism of the AK.

There is also concern at the increasing violence involving Kurdish separatists. Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) claimed responsibility last week for the attacks on police as they escorted the AK Party's campaign bus after a campaign organized by Erdogan in the Turkish north.