In May 2007 Alınak was sentenced to 10 months in prison under Article 301, for his remarks about the Şemdinli incident, in which he described Parliament and the General Staff of Turkey as doing the bidding of the Counter-Guerrilla in protecting those responsible.
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Mahmut Alınak (born 1952, Digor (District), Kars, Kars Province), is a Turkish lawyer, author and politician, of Kurdish origin, and a former parliamentary deputy.