Demirtaş Undergone Medical Examination

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Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) Co-Chair Selahattin Demirtaş has been taken from Edirne F Type Prison to Trakya University Faculty of Medicine Hospital and undergone a medical examination.

Demirtaş had a heart spasm in the prison on Saturday. Staying in hospital for 40 minutes and going through a series of tests and examinations, Demirtaş was taken back to the prison.

A delegation consisting of HDP Vice Co-Chairs Sezai Temelli and Saruhan Oluç, İstanbul MPs Erdal Ataş and attorneys, is off to Edirne Prison to learn about his condition.

12 MPs arrested

HDP Co-Chairs Selahattin Demirtaş and Figen Yüksekdağ, Şırnak MPs Ferhat Encü, Leyla Birlik, Hakkari MPs Selma Irmak, Abdullah Zeydan, Diyarbakır MPs İdris Baluken, Nursel Aydoğan, Ziya Pir, İmam Taşçıer, Ankara MP Sırrı Süreyya Önder and Mardin MP Gülser Yıldırım were taken into custody on November 4.

Pir, Taşçıer and Önder were released on probation.

Yüksekdağ, Demirtaş, Baluken, Birlik, Irmak, Aydoğan, Yıldırım, Zeydan and Encü were arrested on the same day.

HDP Hakkari MP Akdoğan was arrested on November 7. 

HDP Group Deputy Chair Çağlar Demirel and HDP Siirt MP Besime Konca were arrested on December 13, which increased the number of arrested HDP MPs to 12. (NV/TK)