Turkish authorities have released Dalia Mahmoud Muslim, niece of Saleh Muslim, former leader in the Democratic Union Party (DUP), under the conditions that she doesn’t leave the country and continues to be under judiciary supervision.
Turkish authorities detained Dalia on July 15. Her family accused the authorities in the Kurdistan region of Iraq of extraditing her to Turkey while she was preparing to return to Syria from Erbil, where she had traveled for treatment. But the Kurdistan government denied these accusations.
Ankara says that the DUP, which was headed by Saleh Muslim, is the political wing of the Kurdish People's Protection Units, the biggest component of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), which Turkey is confronting in northern Syria.
In 2016, Turkey issued an arrest warrant for Muslim, accusing him of being linked to an attack that targeted Ankara and that left 29 people dead. Muslim denies any link to the attack.
Muslim was arrested in Prague in February 2018 and released after several days, despite Ankara's request to extradite him. Mahmoud Muslim, Dalia's father, denied her affiliation with the Kurdish Women's Protection Units, the women's branch of the Kurdish People's Protection Units.
The Anadolu news agency reported that Dalia was first interrogated by the Prosecutor's Office in the southern Turkish city of Mersin. She was later released by a court in the city under judicial supervision, while being subject to a travel ban.
In other news, the UN on Tuesday sent 12 truckloads of humanitarian aid to northwestern Syria where millions of people are in need of assistance due to internal conflict.
The trucks carrying supplies entered Idlib province through the Cilvegozu border gate in Turkey’s south.
The aid will be distributed among residents of Idlib, and nearby rural areas.