Student arrested in Turkey for listening to Kurdish song

A student at a school in İzmir in Western Turkey was arrested after a video filmed to a Kurdish song, Ermenihaber reports.

The video, in which the detainee filmed his classmates dancing a national dance, was described as propaganda in favor of a terrorist organization.

Turkish media reports that before the student’s arrest, his family members were called and threatened from a phone number registered in the Netherlands: “Your daughter will see what will happen to her, terrorists. See what will happen to your daughter. If she goes to school, we will kill her.”

It is also reported that five more children seen in the video shot by the schoolgirl were later arrested.