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| - Turkey on Monday released the niece of an influential Syrian Kurdish politician, also wanted by Ankara, under judicial supervision, the official Anadolu news agency reported. Dalia Mahmoud Muslim is a niece of Saleh Muslim, who is close to Syria's semi-autonomous Kurdish administration. She was detained on July 15 by Turkish authorities. Dalia Muslim's father says she belongs to the female contingent of the main Syrian Kurdish militia, the YPG, who are deemed to be "terrorists" by Turkey. She was first interrogated by the prosecutor's office in Mersin in southern Turkey, Anadolu reported, before being freed by a court under judicial supervision. Muslim's family had accused Iraqi Kurdish authorities of handing her over to Turkey after she travelled to neighbouring Iraq's Kurdish region six months ago for medical treatment. Arbil denied the accusations. Saleh Muslim was himself briefly detained in Prague in 2018 and Turkey demanded he be extradited on the basis of an arrest warrant Ankara issued two years earlier in connection with an attack in the Turkish capital that killed 29 people in February 2016. He denied any link to the attack and was released. The Kurds established their semi-autonomous administration in vast stretches of northeastern Syria that border Turkey during the ongoing civil war. Turkey says the YPG is a Syrian offshoot of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), which has waged a bloody insurgency against the state since 1984. Saleh Muslim, who speaks Turkish fluently, was for a long time co-chair of the Democratic Union Party (PYD), the YPG's political arm. bg-fo/bmm
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