Refugee in Turkey Shortly after the triggering of the war in Syria, the singer was accused of links with the Kurdistan workers’ party (PKK) and the people’s protection units (YPG) Kurds, according to the Turkish media.
Le Monde with AFP
The Syrian singer Omar Souleyman, arrested Wednesday by the police in the south-east of Turkey for “terrorist propaganda”, was released on Friday, November 19 to 10 hours (8 hours in Paris), said his lawyer, resit Tuna, who had said dread, the day before, a possible expulsion from Turkey.
The star of the Syrian electro-folk, refugee in Turkey shortly after the triggering of the war in Syria, was accused of links with the Kurdistan workers’ party (PKK) and the people’s protection units (YPG) , according to the Turkish media. Ankara considers the YPG, the main Kurdish militia in Syria, as an emanation of the PKK, classified as “terrorist” by Turkey, the European Union and the United States.
Withdrawn for twenty-four hours at the police station of Sanliurfa, a city located about fifty kilometers from the Syrian border, Omar Souleyman had been taken Thursday in a hosting home acting as a detention center for people in front be expelled from Turkish territory, counsel said.
International notoriety
Attached by the France-Presse Agency (AFP), the Sianlurfa Prefecture was unable to confirm the release of the singer, who gained international reputation by combining Syrian and electronic traditional music.
Omar Souleyman, who started his career singing in the weddings in Syria, appears in his clips with a red and white keffieh and thick black sunglasses. The singer fled Syria after the trigger of civil war, in 2011, to settle in Turkey, where he opened a bakery.
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