A friend of Cigdem Aslan says any suggestion she was conducting activities for a banned Kurdish separatist group are a '100 per cent lie'.
Friends deny Melbourne health educator Cigdem Aslan , also known as Lenna Aslan , has any association with the Kurdistan Workers' Party . Cigdem Aslan , also known as Lenna Aslan , was arrested at Istanbul Airport on suspicion of conducting activities for the PKK Kurdish separatist group.
Turkish authorities detained Cigdem Aslan, also known as Lenna Aslan, as she tried to return home to Melbourne last week But Mahmut Kahraman, the co-president of the Kurdish Democratic Community Centre of Victoria, said Ms Aslan had no connection to the PKK and that he believed her arrest was politically motivated."One hundred per cent lie, nothing is true," he said."She a single mum, a hardworking woman and she raised almost two daughters alone and she's a multicultural health worker.
He also claimed that other members of Australia's Kurdish community have also been detained by Turkish authorities in the past six years.
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