Scottish MP Detained in Turkey’s Suruç Talks of ‘Terrifying Experience’
A Scottish MP has spoken of her “terrifying experience” of being detained by security forces in Turkey for using her mobile phone, “Armenpress” reports citing “The Guradian”.
Natalie McGarry says she was shoved repeatedly by a security officer and taken to a shack “filled with guns” during a tank bombardment on Kurds in the city of Diyarbakir in south-eastern Turkey.
The Glasgow East MP was held for about two hours while visiting the Kurdish area of Sur on Thursday, as part of a British delegation highlighting the conflict between Kurdish separatists and Turkish government forces.
The delegation had called for the British government to intervene to stop Kurdish civilians being attacked in Sur and filmed the armed forces in action.
McGarry was near a security checkpoint when she began using her mobile phone to “record the sound of bombs” falling on Sur.
After returning to Britain, McGarry used Twitter to describe her terrifying experience.
She thanked the British Embassy and the Kurds of Sur for assisting her.
Natalie McGarry said her experience showed the need for intervention in the conflict between Kurdish separatists and Turkish forces by NATO.
